slush

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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

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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

The wintry weather also made travel messy on the ground, leaving roads and interstates slick with slush. —Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 28 Nov. 2024

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