Hershey squirts

noun

diarrhea

Meanings

nounHershey squirts pl (plural only)
  1. USpluralplural onlyslangdiarrhea

    But if the Goddess chose to help you by giving Miss Hoover the Hershey squirts, such is her divine wisdom.

    2009 November 29, “Rednecks and Broomsticks”, in The Simpsons, season 21, episode 7, spoken by Gwendolyn Nightshadow (Neve Campbell)
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    It wasn't any kind of physical illness, not measles or chicken pox or even the Hershey Squirts, the most humiliating and debilitating of them all.

    1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

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Origin

In reference to Hershey's, an American chocolate company.

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APA

Hershey squirts. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hershey%20squirts

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“Hershey squirts.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hershey%20squirts. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hershey squirts,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hershey%20squirts.

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