splash

To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.

Noun

  1. The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
    • I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.
  2. A small amount of liquid.
    • I felt a splash of rain, so I put up my hood.
    • I felt a splash of water on my leg as the car drove into the nearby puddle.
    • Add the tomato purée and cook for a further 4-5 minutes. Add a splash of whisky to the pan, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to deglaze. - 2014 August 17 (last accessed), Chris...
  3. A small amount (of color).
    • The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful
  4. A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
    • There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom.
  5. An impact or impression.
    • The new movie made quite a splash upon its release.
  6. A splash screen.
    • When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration. - 2008, Ron Carswell, Heidi Webb, Guide to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005:
  7. A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
  8. A cosmetic powder to whiten the complexion.
  9. A large, prominent headline or article.
    • So for a local newspaper, a splash on a fatal crash is just the first of a series of reports. - 2006, Bob Franklin, Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News:
    • After the brouhaha and the newspaper headline splashes, each of these contentious items would simply die its own quiet death to be replaced by a newer scandal: […] - 2019, Victoria Hoffarth, When Turtles Come Home, page...
  10. A splash page.
  11. The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
    • Hits were observed, but again the poor functioning of VT ammunition hindered in effecting a splash. - 2010, Robin L. Rielly, Kamikaze Attacks of World War II, page 267:
  12. The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
    • Jojo caught up and gave him a splash Slap that wap, get rid of them plats - 2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics), 1:52–1:56:

Origin

Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).

Forms

splashes

Synonyms

plash

Verb

  1. To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
    • sit and splash in the bathtub
    • I know the reason I feel so blessed / My heart still splashes inside my chest - 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “She Moves On”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:
  2. To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter.
    • Water splashed everywhere.
  3. To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
    • She splashed water onto her face.
    • I accidentally splashed some coffee on my keyboard.
  4. To hit or expel liquid at.
    • The children were splashing each other playfully in the sea.
    • When she comes in the door, splash her with perfume.
  5. To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
    • The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere.
    • The March 5, 1978 issue of National Reader […] contained an exciting front page headline -- "Most Major Hollywood Stars Are Gay or Bisexual!!!!" Splashed on the cover are photos of Rock Hudson, Shaun and David Cassidy,...
    • Now it's big black cars and Riviera views / And your lover in the foyer doesn't even know you / And your secrets end up splashed on the news front page - 2012, Taylor Swift, “The Lucky One”, in Red (Taylor's Version),...
  6. To spend (money).
    • After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike.
  7. To roughly fill with color.
    • This was pure theatre, with a 60,000 crowd at Wembley adding colour to the fight to face either England or Denmark in Sunday's final, the stadium splashed with the red of Spain at one end and the victorious blue of...
  8. To launch a ship.
    • In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort...
  9. To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
    • Planes were sighted at about 5000 yards, fire was opened at 4500 yards; the first plane was splashed about 1800 yards from the ship, the second was splashed about 3000 yards from the ship and rudder shifted to hard...
  10. To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
    • Grab him, don't panic, rambo under my jacket Nap him, splash him, then I'm petrol bath my jacket - 2017 October 18, “Panic”, Knockoutned (lyrics), performed by #Moscow17 Ruth x Knockoutned:

    Synonyms: chef ching chib chive enthrill foin gore gride jab job juke kebab knifecrime lancinate pigstick pink poach run through shank shiv spear speet splash stab

Forms

splashes splashing splashed

Related

splish splosh sploosh

Derived

antisplash antisplasher backsplash besplash bootsplash dicksplash hull splash make a splash splashable splash about splash-and-dash splash and dash splash-and-go splash around splashback splashboard splash cup splash cymbal splash dam splash damage splash-dash splash down splashdown splasher