slush

[ sluhsh ]

/ slʌʃ /

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noun

partly melted snow.

liquid mud; watery mire.

waste, as fat, grease, or other refuse, from the galley of a ship.

a mixture of grease and other materials for lubricating.

silly, sentimental, or weakly emotional talk or writing: romantic slush.

slush pile.

verb (used with object)

to splash with slush.

to grease, polish, or cover with slush.

to fill or cover with mortar or cement.

to wash with a large quantity of water, as by dashing it on.

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Origin of slush

1635–45; apparently cognate with Norwegian slusk slops, Swedish slask mud, slops

Words nearby slush

slur, slurb, slurp, slurry, slurve, slush, slush fund, slush pile, slushy, slut, slutch

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How to use slush in a sentence

After a good soak, researchers can pour the resulting slush through a series of ever-smaller screens, like panhandlers searching for gold.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets.|Rachel Feltman|August 12, 2021|Popular-Science
The night before, we forgot to divert our flood-irrigation system, turning the meadow into a soup of sticky slush.
Watching My Dad Die Changed My Life|Cascade Tuholske|May 20, 2021|Outside Online
Through the snow and slush, the Mustang was stable, but the rear-wheel bias showed in periodic tail-wags.
Ford’s electric Mustang Mach-E is an important leap into the future|Dan Carney|February 12, 2021|Popular-Science
“If you must drive SLOW DOWN,” Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service spokesman Pete Piringer tweeted, noting the snow, slush and some ice on county roads in temperatures near 32 degrees.
A little bit of everything wintry Monday night: Snow, sleet, rain, ice, cold|Martin Weil|January 26, 2021|Washington Post

If you wait too long, you might run into issues like heavier snow, melted slush, and refrozen ice.
Best snow shovel: Clear your driveway fast|PopSci Commerce Team|January 19, 2021|Popular-Science
Scalise spoke about taxes and government slush funds for a mere 15 minutes, Knight said.
GOP Boss Gets Help From ‘White Hate’ Pal|Tim Mak|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The complaint further alleges that Glock had a personal slush fund that he used to “cavort with women around the world.”
Glock Family Goes Down, Guns Blazing|Brandy Zadrozny|October 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Again it appears that the governor was using Sandy aid as a political slush fund.
A Mob-Defying Former Mayor Knows Why New Jersey Is So Corrupt|Burt Ross|February 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Take Richard Nixon, who as a senator in the early 1950s, was aided by a donor-funded campaign slush fund.
The Taxonomy of Scandals: Is Obama Nearing a Breaking Point?|Lloyd Green|May 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is the freshest evidence that hyperpartisan super-PAC slush funds are now a core part of the permanent campaign.
With Benghazi Video, Karl Rove Kicks Off 2016 With Hillary Clinton Hit|John Avlon|May 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The slush fairly smothered or blanketed the shell but I was wetted through and was stung up properly with small gravel.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
When the toil was over Jim Billings went below with his mates, and their dripping clothes soon covered the cabin floor with slush.
The Chequers|James Runciman
Lamont turned suddenly, with the horror of feeling the cold slush of the knife in his back, and dropped to his knees.
Menotah|Ernest G. Henham
Snow fell all the way down to Gnatong, where there were already a couple of inches of slush.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
The surface was turning to slush, but he knew it would wear down into a slippery mass on which the logs would run.
The Girl From Keller's|Harold Bindloss

British Dictionary definitions for slush

slush

/ (slʌʃ) /

noun

any watery muddy substance, esp melting snow

informal sloppily sentimental language

nautical waste fat from the galley of a ship

verb

(intr often foll by along) to make one's way through or as if through slush

(intr) to make a slushing sound

Word Origin for slush

C17: related to Danish slus sleet, Norwegian slusk slops; see sludge, slosh

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