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slosh

  [slosh]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to splash or move through water, mud, or slush.
2. (of a liquid) to move about actively within a container.
–verb (used with object)
3. to stir or splash (something) around in a fluid: to slosh the mop in the pail.
4. to splash (liquid) clumsily or haphazardly: She sloshed tea all over her new suit. They sloshed the paint over the wall.
–noun
5. watery mire or partly melted snow; slush.
6. the lap or splash of liquid: the slosh of waves against the shore.
7. a small quantity of liquid: a slosh of milk in the pail.
8. a watery or weak drink.
Origin:
1805–15; perh. b. slop 1 and slush
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slosh   (slŏsh)   
v.   sloshed, slosh·ing, slosh·es

v.   tr.

  1. To spill or splash (a liquid) copiously or clumsily: slosh paint on the floor.

  2. To agitate in a liquid: slosh clothes in a solution of bleach and detergent.

v.   intr.
To splash, wade, or flounder in water or another liquid: sloshed through the creek.
n.  

  1. Slush.

  2. The sound of splashing liquid.


[Perhaps blend of slop1 and slush.]
slosh'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
slosh

  1. n.
    beer; liquor. : How about a glass of slosh?
  2. tv. & in.
    to drink liquor, including beer; to drink to excess. : Are you going to slosh gin all night?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

slosh 
1814, "slush, sludge," probably a blend of slush and slop in its M.E. sense of "muddy place." The verb meaning "to splash about in mud or wet" is from 1844. Meaning "to pour carelessly" is recorded from 1875. Sloshed "drunk" is recorded from c.1900.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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