1. [informal] The sound of a soft wet object hitting something and flattening or breaking apart
   "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
    
2. A slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
   "The ornate splat added character to the antique dining chair"

1. Give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
   "The paintballs splatted against the wall"
    
2. Flatten on impact
   "The snowballs splatted on the trees"
    
3. (cooking) split open and flatten for cooking
   "splat fish over an open fire"

Derived forms: splats, splatted, splatting

Type of: flatten, flatten out, go, pancake, plash [rare], slat, sound, splash, spline

Part of: side chair, straight chair

Encyclopedia: Splat