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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 streamplay

  Familiarity information: SQUIRTING used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SQUIRTING (adjective)


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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