squirt
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
squirt/skwɜːt/
▶verb
- 1 (with reference to a liquid) be or cause to be ejected in a thin jet from a small opening.
■ wet with a jet of liquid.
- 2 transmit (information) in highly compressed or speeded-up form.
- 1 a thin jet of liquid.
■ a device from which liquid may be squirted.
- 2 informal a puny or insignificant person.
- 3 a compressed radio signal transmitted at high speed.
– derivatives
squirter noun.
squirter noun.
– origin ME: imitative.
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