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Noun: splat  splat
  1. [informal] The sound of a soft wet object hitting something and flattening or breaking apart
    "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
     
  2. A slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
Verb: splat (splatted,splatting)  splat
Usage: informal
  1. Give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
     
  2. (cooking) split open and flatten for cooking
    "splat fish over an open fire"
     
  3. Flatten on impact
    "The snowballs splatted on the trees"

Derived forms: splats, splatted, splatting

Type of: flatten, flatten out, go, pancake, plash [rare], slat, sound, splash, spline

Part of: side chair, straight chair

Encyclopedia: Splat