squirt

Universal Words verb, noun verb 1 [usually +adv./prep.] to force liquid, gas, etc. in a thin fast stream through a narrow opening; to be forced out of a narrow opening in this way: [VN] The snake can squirt poison from a distance of a metre. * I desperately squirted water on the flames. * [V] When I cut the lemon, juice squirted in my eye. 2 [VN] ~ sb/sth (with sth) to hit sb/sth with a stream of water, gas, etc: The children were squirting each other with water from the hose. * He squirted a water pistol at me (= made the water come out of it). noun 1 a thin, fast stream of a liquid that comes out of a small opening: a squirt of perfume * a squirt of ketchup on the french fries 2 (informal, disapproving) a word used to refer to a short, young or unimportant person that you do not like or that you find annoying