shampoo

UK/ʃæmˈpuː/US/ʃæmˈpuː/

nounA2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,037 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: shampoos

Shampoo is the liquid soap made specially for your hair. Wash with shampoo, a bottle of shampoo, dry shampoo.

It is detergent, and the difference between an expensive one and a cheap one is mostly the conditioner and the scent. Washing less often than the label suggests suits most hair. The word came from Hindi and first meant to massage — a shampoo was a head massage before it was a liquid.

Definitions of shampoo

1nounshampooLiquid soap made for washing hair.A2+
“I ran out of shampoo, so I had to wash my hair with soap.”

shampoo is a cleaning liquid.

Where it comes from

Hindi champo is the imperative of a verb meaning to press or knead. A shampoo was a massage before it was a liquid.

Hindi
चाँपो
English, today
shampoo

Built from

चांपना · Hindi — to press, knead

From Hindi चाँपो / चांपो, imperative form of चाँपना / चांपना (“to press, knead”), mid 18

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Around the House

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shampoo in the wild

Timotei is a shampoo brand owned by Unilever.
Timotei
Timotei shampoo was launched in the early 1980s, but some countries only sold Timotei for a short period.
Timotei
There are also medicated shampoos intended for animals.
Shampoo
Hair washing without commercial shampoo, sometimes called no poo, includes water-only hair washing or hair washing with non-shampoo products, such as baking soda or vinegar.
Hair washing without commercial shampoo
A shampoo and set was a hair styling treatment that first became popular in the United Kingdom from the 1930s.
Shampoo and set

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