slush

1 of 2

noun

ˈsləsh 

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

2

: 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

slush

2 of 2

verb

slushed; slushing; slushes

transitive verb

: to wet or splash with slush

intransitive verb

1

: to make one's way through slush

2

: to make a splashing sound

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

Noun

But the glacier had melted into a lake of slush and icebergs when the duo reached it. —Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2024

His team collected microbial slush from a site known as Loki’s Castle. —Quanta Magazine, 28 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

Word History

Etymology

Noun

perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian slusk slush

First Known Use

Noun

circa 1642, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

1807, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Phrases Containing slush

• slush fund

Kids Definition

slush

noun

ˈsləsh

1

: partly melted or watery snow

2

: soft mud : mire

3

: overly sentimental material