squirt
v.v. to shoot out a thin stream of liquid with force. You might do this with a water gun or by squeezing a bottle of sauce.
v. to eject a liquid in a thin, fast-moving stream, typically by applying pressure to a container or through a narrow opening.
Be careful not to squirt lemon juice in your eye.
The chef showed us how to squirt a perfect line of chocolate sauce across the dessert plate.
As the pressure in the pipe reached its limit, water began to squirt through the tiny cracks in the seal, drenching the floor before the valve could be closed.
From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably onomatopoeic. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, and skvätta; Icelandic skvetta; and Norwegian skvette.
The verb can be used transitively (to squirt something) or intransitively (something squirts out).