splat
pronunciation
How to pronounce splat in British English:
UK [splæt]
How to pronounce splat in American English:
US [splæt]
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- Noun:
- a single splash
- a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
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- Verb:
- give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
- split open and flatten for cooking
- flatten on impact
Word Origin
- splat (v.)
- "to land with a smacking sound," 1897, probably of imitative origin. As a noun from 1958.
Example
- 1. I would never let my best friend go splat .
- 2. Splat the food on people you hate and don ?
- 3. A minute must have passed with me keeping my eyes shut , and there was no splat .
- 4. He flew across the yard and landed with a splat against the trunk of the massive tree in my yard .
- 5. But we 're all gonna get splat eventually .