sploot

1. Used to represent a plop or splash.

plural sploots

1. slangAn animal's posture of lying flat on its stomach with its hind legs extended.First known use early 21st c.

   “That's called a corgi ‘sploot,’” informs Jason.

   2018 September, J. Warner Wallace, Forensic Faith for Kids, Learn to Share the Truth from a Real Detective, David C Cook, unpaged

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   Rupert wandered restlessly around for a few minutes and finally settled at Charlotte's feet, his feathery back legs stretched out behind him in what corgi owners call a sploot.

   2016 December 13, Elizabeth J. Duncan, “Ill Met by Murder”, in A Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery, Crooked Lane Books, page 207

   Inside, Calliope turned to see her rottweiler, Coco, engaging in her wake up stretches: butt up, paws out, followed by back legs out behind her in a sploot.

   2021, Debbie Baldwin, Illicit Intent, Gatekeeper Press, unpaged

present singular third person sploots · participle present splooting · participle past splooted · past splooted

1. intransitiveslangOf an animal: to lie flat on its stomach with its hind legs extended.First known use early 21st c.

   Squirrels in the U.S. are 'splooting' in an attempt to stay cool and close to the ground as the heat blazes across the country

   2020 August 20, Matthew Wright, DailyMail.comhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8648567/Squirrels-U-S-splooting-attempt-stay-cool-close-ground.html

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   Four of the dragons sploot flat instead of sitting — a gesture they must have picked up from their time being Frank’s corgi.

   2019, March 5, Amber Royer, Pure Chocolate, Watkins Media, unpaged

   With his front paws tucked underneath his chest and his hind legs splayed behind him in a splooting pose, he didn’t appear to have a care in the world.

   2020 September 21, Paige Sleuth, Arrested in Cherry Hills, Amazon KDP, chapter 6, unpaged

   Not many big dogs do the sploot, but Pooh Bear will sploot just about anytime and anywhere. She even splooted in the middle of the mall while waiting to see Santa!

   2020 November 3, Tama Fortner, “Homecoming Tales”, in 15 Inspiring Stories from Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary, Thomas Nelson, page 82

   Synonyms: frog, pancake