squirt

An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.

The Karo-Bataks of Sumatra have a rain-making ceremony which lasts a week. The men go about with bamboo squirts and the women with bowls of water, and they drench each other or throw the water into the air and cry, "The rain has come," when it drips down on them.

A small, quick stream; a jet.

Chances are you′ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.

The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.

A burst of noise.

As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.

An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.

He was still there when I came up, a squirt with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his squirt face. I thought maybe I had seen him around town, but maybe not, the squirts look so much alike when they grind them out of journalism school.

To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.

The toothpaste squirted from the tube.

1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Werewolves, 2008, Forgotten Books, page 121, His servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him.

To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.

The hard-featured miscreant[…] coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.

It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim.

To emit, eject or excrete (something).

Among the hallmarks that all fungi share is the way they eat. They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in. Fungi can also produce vast number of spores, which can survive in all sorts of extreme conditions for years.

To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.

Ask the child to squirt the target with water.

To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.

he'll be ready to squirt his Wits at his own Shadow