shower

/ʃaʊər/ noun [C]

Definition

WASH › If you have or take a shower, you wash your whole body while standing under a flow of water: I got up, had a shower and got dressed.

BATHROOM EQUIPMENT › a piece of bathroom equipment that you stand under to wash your whole body: He likes to sing in the shower.

RAIN › a short period of rain

a shower of sth › a lot of small things in the air, especially falling through the air: a shower of glass

(Definition of shower noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that they are not worth having

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