slushy
Americanadjective
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of or relating to slush.
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Informal. tritely sentimental; mushy.
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Add a cold, slushy coffee drink and suddenly breakfast at home begins to feel like brunch.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Reising wore skis as he and other officials measured snow in a slushy meadow at Phillips Station near South Lake Tahoe, where rains in the last week began to melt the snow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
Although scientists do not expect to find fish swimming through Titan's slushy channels, any life discovered there might resemble organisms found in Earth's polar regions.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 20, 2025
The kind of bowl you crave after traipsing home through slushy streets with cold fingers.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Neither proved very productive, and I ended up eating mouthfuls of slushy snow that left me shivering with the taste of tar in my mouth.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Over in South Philly, Pop's ices sport a slushier, less firmly set style that's become the favorite in the city and surrounding areas.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2023
With the track getting slushier and slushier, it did with ease.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
It's hard not to suspect that it was the film's slushier, sillier moments that got Williams the Oscar nod for his performance as DJ Adrian Cronauer.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2014
Some racers blamed all the crashes on the springlike temperatures, which they said made the course slushier than they were expecting.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2014
For shoes you’ll be wearing on the slushiest of winter days—or even hiking muddy or snowy trails—break out the beeswax.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2018
This tyranny seems to really take hold around the mid-90s, with Celine Dion's 1996 effort The Power of the Dream competing with Gloria Estefan's Reach for gold medal in the slushiest faux-inspirational sports ballad event.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012
May it be dry when next I call, Your slushiest of isles!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891 by Various
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