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SQUIRTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does squirting mean?
• SQUIRTING (adjective)
The adjective SQUIRTING has 1 sense:
1. propelled violently in a usually narrow stream
Familiarity information: SQUIRTING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Propelled violently in a usually narrow stream
Synonyms:
jetting; spouting; spurting; squirting
Similar:
running ((of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream)
Context examples
Astonished at the sight, I leaned forward to pick it off, when, to my horror, it burst between my finger and thumb, squirting blood in every direction.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Three dead men lay huddled together in front of them: while a fourth, with the blood squirting from a severed vessel, lay back with updrawn knees, breathing in wheezy gasps.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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