slush
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.
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.
Origin of slush
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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-ScienceThe night before, we forgot to divert our flood-irrigation system, turning the meadow into a soup of sticky slush.
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 PostIf 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.
The complaint further alleges that Glock had a personal slush fund that he used to “cavort with women around the world.”
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 | THE DAILY BEASTTake 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 | THE DAILY BEASTIt 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 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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 HamiltonWhen 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 RuncimanLamont turned suddenly, with the horror of feeling the cold slush of the knife in his back, and dropped to his knees.
Menotah | Ernest G. HenhamSnow 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-BuryThe 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
/ (slʌʃ) /
any watery muddy substance, esp melting snow
informal sloppily sentimental language
nautical waste fat from the galley of a ship
(intr often foll by along) to make one's way through or as if through slush
(intr) to make a slushing sound
Origin of slush
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