I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
squirt gun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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And the Monster was pinching Ma's bosoms with its hideous clawed fingers so that blood squirted out .
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The holds the body while the young red blood squirts out and slashes the base of the li in criss-cross patterns.
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When fired you got pushed in the opposite direction to that in which the jet was squirting out .
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Some fruit-eating birds can swallow fruit and only five minutes later squirt out the remains.
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Various rocks show evidence that the lunar material has been melted, squirted out from volcanoes, and crushed by meteorite impacts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He squirted some ketchup on his fries.
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Kids were squirting each other with water pistols.
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The batter is squirted into round molds, then baked.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A nuisance to be squashed on a countertop or squirted with pesticide.
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And when squirted into the windpipes of mice, the viruses infected the animals' lungs and delivered the marker genes.
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Crystal squirted me all over with scent even though it wouldn't show in a photograph.
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Cyanide fishermen learn exactly where and when grouper go to spawn; they then squirt their poison with practiced precision.
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I squirted some on my wrist.
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Liquid plutonium is squirted in, waste is siphoned off.
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Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else.
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The spiny newt protects itself by squirting poison into the mouths of predators.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Add a couple of squirts of lemon juice to the mixture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All her concentration was on the squirt .
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Give any large areas a squirt of zinc chromate primer but beware - it is very toxic and carcinogenic.
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One edge of the curtain trailed in the bowl of water Tony filled his squirt from.
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The squirt is sitting on the end of the second row, grinning as Keith passes.