Usually means: Water bath from above head.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word shower:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. shower: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shower: Merriam-Webster
  3. shower, shower: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shower, shower: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shower: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shower: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shower, shower: Wordnik
  8. shower: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shower: Wiktionary
  10. shower: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shower: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shower: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shower: Dictionary.com
  14. shower (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shower: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shower (Becky G song), Shower (disambiguation), Shower (film), Shower (juggling), Shower (precipitation), Shower (song), Shower, The Shower (film), The Shower: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shower: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shower: Rhymezone
  20. shower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shower: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Shower (baby shower): American-Britih Dictionary
  23. shower: FreeDictionary.org
  24. shower: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Shower (bridal, etc.): The Word Detective
  26. shower: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. shower: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shower: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Wedding Paper Divas Glossary (No longer online)
  3. shower: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shower, shower: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shower: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Shower (or hamper): Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See showered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
noun:  A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
noun:  An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
noun:  A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
noun:  A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
noun:  A bridal shower.
noun:  A baby shower.
noun:  (juggling) A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.
noun:  (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
noun:  (chiefly Ireland, UK, Australia, derogatory) A shower of shit.
noun:  (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, derogatory, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
noun:  (British, informal, in the singular) A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.
verb:  (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
verb:  To bathe using a shower.
verb:  To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
verb:  (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
noun:  One who shows.
noun:  An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
noun:  (slang) A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid, or the penis itself.

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