glop
Americannoun
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unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
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any messy substance, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
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sentimentality; mawkishness.
Etymology
Origin of glop
First recorded in 1940–45; expressive word akin to goop 2 gulp
Explanation
Glop is an unidentified blob of some damp, sticky, or slushy material. When you're walking down a city sidewalk, every once in a while you have to avoid stepping in some glop. If you don't like the looks of your oatmeal, you might describe it as glop, and your cat's stinky wet food is definitely glop — there's a distinctly distasteful implication to the word. You can also use glop to describe maudlin, overly sentimental poetry or movies: "I couldn't stand to watch that glop, so I turned off the TV." Glop came along in 1943, its sound imitating a ladleful of gummy gunk hitting a plate.
Example Sentences
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In the palm of your hand, it looks like a glop of hair gel.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024
Remove as much of the glop as possible, then put the seeds in a colander and run under water, picking out and rinsing the individual seeds.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Sometimes the glop is pale green or yellow, sometimes it’s deep red.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
The white glop on the floor had dried to powder.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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