5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
noun a single splash
noun a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
verb give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
originFrom earlier splat (“to spread flat”), from Middle English splatten, splaten (“to stretch out, extend", also "to split”). Compare dialectal English splat (“flat”).
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