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ShamWow en · NOUN

Etymology

Trade name, from Blend of chamois + wow.

Meanings

1. A brand of absorbent cloth.
   • 2010, Scott Adams, Dilbert comic strip "Use this Shamwow to absorb someone else's soul while you suck on the other end."
   • You might as well buy a couple of ShamWows and least you get your money's worth. 2009, John C Bieber, Angels:
   • From now on, will soak up her briefings like Shamwow. 2009, G. B. Trudeau, My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts?: The Tweets of Roland Hedley, page 25:
   • He had sincere ambition, and he would soak up information like a "ShamWOW" sponge. 2008, Jeff Zahratka, Sweepers Sweepers Man Your Brooms: An Enlisted Man's Story, page 167:

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