Hershey squirts

English

Etymology

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

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Noun

Hershey squirts pl (plural only)

1. (slang, US) diarrhea
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     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.

   • 2009 November 29, “Rednecks and Broomsticks”, in The Simpsons, season 21, episode 7, spoken by Gwendolyn Nightshadow (Neve Campbell):

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