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Shampoo

Definition: Shampoo

Shampoo

Noun

1. Cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair.

2. The act of washing your hair with shampoo.

Verb

1. Use shampoo on (hair).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shampoo" was first used: 1762. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Shampoo

DomainDefinition

Biographical Satire

SHAMPOO, a barber of Shoo Poo, China, who introduced the art of clean heads into the Celestial Empire. This has since fallen into disrepute in that country, but is sometimes practiced in other lands. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

Dream Interpretation

To dream of seeing shampooing going on, denotes that you will engage in undignified affairs to please others.
To have your own head shampooed, you will soon make a secret trip, in which you will have much enjoyment, if you succeed in keeping the real purport from your family or friends. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Shampoo

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A shampoo is a traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.

Since the early 20th century, the term shampoo has also been used for commercial liquid soap products for washing hair. Shampoo is designed to produce plenty of lather that removes dirt, without removing the natural oils that protect the hair. The product is made slightly acidic to cause the hair to contract slightly, giving it a shinier appearance.

Well-known shampoo brands include:

There is also a 1975 Hollywood motion picture named Shampoo. It stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shampoo."

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Synonyms: Shampoo

Synonyms by domain: shampooed (european union, chemical industry), shampooing (european union, chemical industry).

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Crosswords: Shampoo

English words defined with "shampoo": KwellShampooed, ShampooingTripsis. (references)
Specialty definitions using "shampoo": dispensary attendant, DOG BATHERPERSONAL ATTENDANTSUPPLY CLERK. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Shampoo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (shampoo), German (shampoo), Italian (shampoo), Samoan (shampoo).

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Modern Usage: Shampoo

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It must be my new shampoo. (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett)

People who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

Denise pushed us out of the bathroom and Rudy doesn't have all of the shampoo rinsed out of her hair (The Cosby Show; writing credit: Bob Shayne)

Well, I did pass out today and got hit in the head by a baseball and brushed my teeth with shampoo then butchered Rimsky- Korsakov in front of 1,500 people, and my clothes fell apart (The Man with One Red Shoe; writing credit: Francis Veber; Yves Robert)

I washed my hair with adult formula shampoo and used cream rinse for that just-washed shine (Home Alone; writing credit: John Hughes)

Lyrics

Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo (If It Makes You Happy; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

Movie/TV Titles

Shampoo the Magician (1932)

French Shampoo (1978)

Black Shampoo (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Shampoo

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Shampoo in North America & the Caribbean (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Shampoo Haircare Products (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Poland Shampoo Report 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Shampoo Planet (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Shampoo [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • The green consumer guide : from shampoo to champagne : high-street shopping for a better environment (reference)

  • US SHAMPOO REPORT 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Shampoo

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Photo Album: Shampoo

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Bond's, business at 6th and Vine Sts., Cincinnati, Ohio. Shampoo room. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Shampoo

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Use a mild shampoo. (references)

Warm compresses should be applied to the lid to loosen the crusts, followed by a light scrubbing of the eyelid with a cotton swab and a mixture of water and baby shampoo. (references)

A 1% permethrin or pyrethrin lice shampoo, also called pediculicide peh-DICK-you-luh-side, is recommended to treat pubic lice. These products are available with out a prescription at your local drug store. (references)

Business

The most popular shampoo brands include Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Timotei and Sunsilk. (references)

In the shampoo segment, local manufacturers have significantly strengthened their positions in the market. (references)

The products that spent the most for advertising were shampoo, laundry detergents, soft drinks, soap, beer, motorbikes and toothpaste. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

Due to the reduction of the IPI (Tax on Industrialized Products) , some products considered essential (soaps, shampoo, dental cream, i.e.) had a meaningful market growth. (references)

Trade

Poland

They include a wide range of diverse products, including wire rods, steel pipes and castings, motor vehicle components, bicycles, personal computers, fertilizers, and shampoo. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Shampoo

"Shampoo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.48% of the time. "Shampoo" is used about 264 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.48%26018,316
Noun (proper)1.52%4175,879
                    Total100.00%264N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Shampoo

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "shampoo": shampoo-swilling.

Ending with "shampoo": mini-shampoo, pre-shampoo, wella-shampoo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shampoo

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

shampoo

1,534

matrix shampoo

41

dog shampoo

418

pet shampoo

40

hair shampoo

282

free shampoo

40

cat shampoo

208

nizoral shampoo

37

baby shampoo

159

horse shampoo

37

salon shampoo

118

shampoo hentai

36

free shampoo sample

88

club shampoo

35

natural shampoo

68

alterna shampoo

34

breck shampoo

66

shampoo recipe

30

hair loss shampoo

58

agree shampoo

29

dry shampoo

55

pantene shampoo

29

shampoo night club

55

suave shampoo

29

dove shampoo

50

psoriasis shampoo

28

carpet shampoo

49

neem shampoo

28

nioxin shampoo

49

head shoulder shampoo

27

dandruff shampoo

48

shampoo sample

27

ranma shampoo

45

rogaine shampoo

26

herbal shampoo

45

shampoo ranma 1 2

26

vidal sassoon shampoo

43

shampoo dispenser

25

tegrin shampoo

42

shampoo cape

25
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Shampoo

Language Translations for "shampoo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

sjampoe. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

shampo, larje koke. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مستحضر صابون, ‏غسل الرأس بالشامبو, ‏غسل الرأس, ‏غسل الشعر بالصابون و الماء, ‏غسل شعر الرأس, ‏شامبو. (various references)

   

Asturian

  

xampú. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

шампоан, мия косата, миене на косата. (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

bubho. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

香波. (various references)

   

Czech

  

umýt šamponem, šampon. (various references)

   

Danish

  

shampoo. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

shampoo, het haar wassen. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

ŝampuo, ŝampui. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

sjampo. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

سرشویه , سرشوی , باشامپویاسرشوی شستشودادن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pesu ja kampaus (shampoo and set). (various references)

   

French

  

shampooing. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

sjampo, hierwaskjemiddel. (various references)

   

German

  

schampunieren, Haarwaschmittel (lotion, shampoos), waschen (bathe, clean, clean down, launder, lave, pan, sluice, sponge down, to bathe, to give a wash, to launder, to lave, to wash, wash, washing). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαμπουάν. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לחפוף ראש, תרחיץ (lotion, wash). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sampon. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sampo, pencuci rambut. (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

nujaqmut uasaut. (various references)

   

Italian

  

shampooing, shampoo, lavare con shampoo, detersivo liquido. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

洗髪. (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せ"ぱつ (advance party, forerunner, going on ahead, hair dyeing), シャンプー . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

샴푸. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

sampon. (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheeabin foltoonlee, folt-oonley, folt-heeabin. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

shampu, zjampo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ampooshay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

xampu, massagem (massage, rubbing), lavar o cabelo, champu, champô. (various references)

   

Provencal

  

shampong. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

spãlatul capului, masaj (massage, rubber), loţiune (lotion, shampooing, wash), fricţiune (disagreement, divergence, divergency, friction, rub, rubbing, rubdown), şampona, şampon. (various references)

   

Romansch

  

schampo. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

шампунь, мытье головы, мыть шампунем/ шампунь. (various references)

   

Samoan

  

shampoo. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prati kosu, oprati (brush, launder, lave, wash, wash up), šampon. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

champú (dandruff, wash). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

schamponera. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

köpükle yıkamak, şampuanlamak, şampuanlama, şampuanla yıkamak, şampuan. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

шампунь, масажувати (knead, massage), миття голови, мити голову. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thuốc gội đầu sự gội đầu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Shampoo

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sanskrit300 BCE-Modern

capayati. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Shampoo

Derivations

Words beginning with "shampoo": shampooed, shampooer, shampooers, shampooing, shampoos. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Shampoo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sanpoa, scampoo, Sharmpal, Shimbu, Shimojo, Shmarov, Tampopo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Shampoo

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: oompahs.

Words within the letters "a-h-m-o-o-p-s"

-1 letter: oompah, oomphs.

-2 letters: homos, hoops, oomph, opahs, poohs.

-3 letters: amps, hams, haps, hasp, homo, hoop, hops, maps, mash, mhos, moas, moos, mops, mosh, ohms, oohs, oops, opah, pams, pash, poms, pooh, posh, samp, sham, shmo, shoo, shop, soap, soma, soph, spam.

-4 letters: amp, ash, asp, ham, hao, hap, has, hop, map, mas, mho, moa.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-m-o-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: omphalos, shampoos.

 

+2 letters: amorphous, homoplasy, photomaps, photomask, shampooed, shampooer.

 

+3 letters: allomorphs, homeopaths, homographs, lagomorphs, monographs, nomographs, omophagies, omphaloses, phonograms, photograms, photomasks, shampooers, shampooing.

 

+4 letters: amorphously, chromoplast, cochampions, cosmography, gramophones, homophobias, homoplasies, homoplastic, homopterans, monophagies, monophagous, mycophagous, mythopoeias, photomosaic, photomurals, protohumans, taphonomies, taphonomist.

 

+5 letters: allelomorphs, allomorphism, anemophilous, apomorphines, automorphism, bronchospasm, chromoplasts, cosmographer, cosmographic, exophthalmos, gametophores, hippopotamus, homeopathies, lymphomatous, melanophores, metamorphose, monadelphous, nomographies, photomosaics, taphonomists, tomographies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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