Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various liquid or cream preparations of soap or detergent used to wash the hair and scalp.
- n. Any of various cleaning agents for rugs, upholstery, or cars.
- n. The act or process of washing or cleaning with shampoo.
- v. To wash or undergo washing with shampoo.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To rub and percuss the whole surface of (the body), and at the same time to extend the limbs and rack the joints, in connection with a hot bath, for the purpose of restoring tone and vigor to the system; a practice introduced from the East. Such kneading and rubbing of the whole body is now commonly called massage. Also used figuratively.
- To lather, wash, and rub or brush (the head) thoroughly.
- n. The act or operation of shampooing, in either sense.
Wiktionary
- n. A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
- n. A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets.
- n. An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
- n. humorous, slang Champagne (wine).
- v. intransitive To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
- v. transitive To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.
- v. To wash throughly and rub the head of (a person), with the fingers, using either soap, or a soapy preparation, for the more thorough cleansing.
- n. The act of shampooing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair
- n. the act of washing your hair with shampoo
- v. use shampoo on (hair)
Etymologies
- From Hindi चाँपो (champo), imperative form of चाँपना (champna, "to press, knead"), from the Sanskrit root चपयति (√cap, "to pound, knead"). (Wiktionary)
- From Hindi cāṁpō, imperative of cāṁpnā, to press. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“i dunch condition .. but irrc conditioner + shampoo wan ish use as per normal shampoo~”
“Chemists in Germany and elsewhere continued to make headway researching alternatives to alkaline soaps, and after World War I, the wider availability of indoor plumbing brought the word shampoo a big step closer to international recognition.”
“Happily, in English the word shampoo can still radiate a Hindi blend of sacred health and pleasure.”
“After World War II, variations on the word shampoo emerged in most major marketplace languages to refer to the new product rather than to the older practice of the shampoo or shampooing.”
“Because now I realize that perhaps my shampoo is a bit too expensive. hahahahooo gafaw love you!”
“Because now I realize that perhaps my shampoo is a bit too expensive.”
“Of course, "shampoo" is not necessarily what we use to wash our hair.”
“In fact, some years ago, my working actor brother forwarded me an audition for a big name shampoo commercial.”
“The massage was excellent, but what impressed me about the shampoo was the small amount of water used.”
“The shampoo is a generic version of Loprox, which is used to treat seborrheic dermatitis of the scalp.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shampoo’.
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Loanwords
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
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Figuratively
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Realia from Everywhere
Culturally defined terms and expressions from the four corners of the world
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Wordnik Spam Inquiries
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awesome words
Words that mean cool things
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cgrimm's list
Words I like or find interesting
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Things that smell better than they taste
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Non-Newtonian Fluids
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Of Curious Provenance
Words with interesting etymologies.
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Words I like
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for shampoo.

reesetee *steps away from PossU* Jan 17, 2010
PossibleUnderscore Umbrage! I demand realpoo! Jan 16, 2010
muamor That doesn't sound so bad. Hindi? Cool. Mar 6, 2008
cgrimm Ok, let's be brave!!
from the online etymological dictionary:
1762, "to massage," from Anglo-Indian shampoo, from Hindi champo, imperative of champna "to press, knead the muscles," perhaps from Skt. capayati "pounds, kneads." Meaning "wash the hair" first recorded 1860; extended 1954 to carpets, upholstery, etc. The noun meaning "soap for shampooing" first recorded 1866. Mar 6, 2008
mollusque Would you rather use realpoo? Mar 2, 2008
muamor Sham and poo in a same word. Too scared to see the etymology, if there is any. Mar 2, 2008