plural slushes
1
a
: partly melted or watery snow
b
: loose ice crystals formed during the early stages of freezing of salt water
c
: slushy
Cut watermelon into small chunks and freeze, then blend frozen fruit and buttermilk to make a cooling fruit slush.—
Sunset Magazine
Sunset Magazine2
: soft mud : mire
3
: refuse grease and fat from cooking especially on shipboard
4
: paper pulp in water suspension
5
: trashy and usually cheaply sentimental material
6
: unsolicited writings submitted (as to a magazine) for publication
slushed; slushing; slushes
: to wet or splash with slush
Synonyms
Noun
- applesauce [slang]
- balderdash
- baloney
- boloney
- beans
- bilge
- blah
- blah-blah
- blarney
- blather
- blatherskite
- blither
- bosh
- bull [slang]
- bunk
- bunkum
- buncombe
- claptrap
- codswallop [British]
- crapola [slang]
- crock
- drivel
- drool
- fiddle
- fiddle-faddle
- fiddlesticks
- flannel [British]
- flapdoodle
- folderol
- falderal
- folly
- foolishness
- fudge
- garbage
- guff
- hogwash
- hokeypokey
- hokum
- hoodoo
- hooey
- horsefeathers [slang]
- humbug
- humbuggery
- jazz
- malarkey
- malarky
- moonshine
- muck
- nerts [slang]
- nonsense
- nuts
- piffle
- poppycock
- punk
- rot
- rubbish
- senselessness
- silliness
- stupidity
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- tommyrot
- tosh
- trash
- trumpery
- twaddle
Examples of slush in a Sentence
Noun
a sidewalk covered with slush
The movie is just a lot of romantic slush.
Recent Examples on the Web
Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
Storms in the Flagstaff area brought hail and caused slush on the roads, according to a National Weather Service post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
—Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
Plow driver fired: A snowplow driver has been fired after his plow threw snow and slush onto the opposite side of the Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky, damaging 55 vehicles, Olivia Mitchell reports.
—cleveland, 9 Feb. 2022
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Noun
His team collected microbial slush from a site known as Loki’s Castle.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
Storms in the Flagstaff area brought hail and caused slush on the roads, according to a National Weather Service post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
—Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
Verb
So one misstep can turn a team’s championship dreams to slush.
—Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
Plow driver fired: A snowplow driver has been fired after his plow threw snow and slush onto the opposite side of the Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky, damaging 55 vehicles, Olivia Mitchell reports.
—cleveland, 9 Feb. 2022
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“Slush.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slush. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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