Usually means: Messy, sudden impact or sound.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word splat:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. splat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. splat: Merriam-Webster
  3. splat, splat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. splat, splat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. splat: Collins English Dictionary
  6. splat: Vocabulary.com
  7. Splat, splat: Wordnik
  8. splat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. splat: Wiktionary
  10. splat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. splat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. splat: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. splat: Dictionary.com
  14. splat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. splat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SPLAT, Splat (furniture), Splat, The Splat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. splat: Rhymezone
  18. splat: FreeDictionary.org
  19. splat: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. splat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. splat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. splat: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. splat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. SPLAT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. splat, splat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. splat, the splat: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See splating as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
noun:  The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
noun:  The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
noun:  (computing, slang) The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
noun:  (computing, slang) Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.
noun:  The asterisk *
noun:  The hash symbol #
noun:  (programming) An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
noun:  (programming) An operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
noun:  A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
noun:  A children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPLAT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.
verb:  (intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
verb:  (transitive) To splatter.
verb:  (computer graphics, transitive) To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.

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