slosh

slosh (slɒʃ)

—n
1.	watery mud, snow, etc
2.	slang (Brit) a heavy blow
3.	the sound of splashing liquid
4.	a popular dance with a traditional routine of steps, kicks, and turns performed in lines

—vb (when intr, often foll by about or around) (usually foll by about or around)
5.	informal (tr; foll by around, on, in, etc) to throw or pour (liquid)
6.	informal
	a. to shake or stir (something) in a liquid
	b. (of a person) to splash (around) in water, etc
7.	slang (Brit) (tr) to deal a heavy blow to
8.	informal to shake (a container of liquid) or (of liquid within a container) to be shaken

[C19: variant of slush, influenced by slop¹]

'sloshy

—*adj*

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Etymonline

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.

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Slang Dictionary

slosh definition

n.
beer; liquor. : How about a glass of slosh?
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.
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Example sentences

Soon, much less global liquidity will be around to slosh its way into commodity

markets.

The surge would slosh over the levees around the lake into the city.

They slosh out into a bog, and with inexplicable simultaneity, begin applauding

wildly.

But if the winds slacken briefly, warm water begins to slosh back across the

ocean, while the upwelling in the east slows down.

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"Kitchens were different then, too—not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing. Oilcloth and linoleum and apples in an open bowl and ruffled rubber aprons make a different aromatic mix from Formica and ceramic tile and mangoes in an acrylic fruit ripener and plastic-coated aprons printed with "Who invited all these tacky people?" And the kitchen sounds. I am not sure that today's kitchen is noisier. But the noises are different. Today you get the song of the food processor and the blender, the intermittent hum of the reefer and the freezer, the buzz-slosh-and-grunt of the dishwasher, the violently audible digestive processes of the waste disposal in the sink. Then it was the whir and clatter of the hand-powered eggbeater, the thunk-thunk-thunk of somebody mashing potatoes, or, in green-pea season, the crisp pop of pea pod and the rattle-rattle-rattle of peas into the pan."

-Peg Bracken