shampoos

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of shampoo.

   The salon stocks dozens of shampoos for every hair type.

   Cheaper shampoos often contain harsher cleaning agents than salon brands.

   Note

   One plural spelling covers several different nouns. Most often it counts products or formulations, such as carpet shampoos and salon shampoos. It can also count washes, as in two shampoos a week, and in humorous slang it counts servings of champagne. An older meaning also survives: the Indian and Persian body massage given with warm water and herbal extracts.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of shampoo.

   The groomer shampoos each dog thoroughly before the show.

   My stylist always shampoos the hair twice during a wash.

   Note

   Without an object, it means washing one's own hair: she shampoos every morning. With an object, the thing washed can be hair, a carpet or a dog. A second transitive use belongs to the bathhouse, where it means kneading a person's whole body and stretching the limbs. So "the attendant shampoos the bather" need not involve hair at all, a link to the massage noun.

   She shampoos every morning before work.

   He only shampoos twice a week in winter.

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