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From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), mid 18th c.

countable, uncountable A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
countable, uncountable A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets. These endocrine disruptors are everywhere: plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts. They often aren’t on labels and can be difficult to avoid.
countable, uncountable An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo. I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.
countable, humorous, slang, uncountable Champagne.

intransitive To wash one's own hair with shampoo. My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.
transitive To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo. Each pony had his sais, his groom, who lived and ate and slept with the animal, and had betted a good deal more than he could afford on the result of the game. There was no chance of anything going wrong, but to make sure, each sais was shampooing the legs of his pony to the last minute. Behind the
transitive To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.