[slurp] 
| 1. | to ingest (food or drink) with loud sucking noises: He slurped his coffee. |
| 2. | to make loud sucking noises while eating or drinking: to slurp when eating soup. |
| 3. | an intake of food or drink with a noisy sucking sound: He finished his milk in about three slurps. |
| 4. | any lapping or splashing sound: the slurp of the waves against the hull. |
| slurp (slûrp) v. slurped, slurp·ing, slurps v. tr. To eat or drink noisily. v. intr. To eat or drink something noisily. n.
[Dutch slurpen.] |
slurp
To read a large data file entirely into core before working on it. This may be contrasted with the strategy of reading a small piece at a time, processing it, and then reading the next piece. "This program slurps in a 1K-by-1K matrix and does an FFT." See also sponge.
[The Jargon File]