splat

About 0.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The narrow wooden centrepiece of a chair back.
2. noun The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.

   I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor.

3. noun The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.

   The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.

4. noun The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
5. noun Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets. The asterisk * The hash symbol #
6. noun The asterisk *
7. noun The hash symbol #
8. noun An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....

Similar words

splash cooling crush slatback spelk splint splent sloat spurket spiling

Often followed by

of and on is in cooling quenching against into

Word family

splats