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slurp

[slurp]
–verb (used with object)
1. to ingest (food or drink) with loud sucking noises: He slurped his coffee.
–verb (used without object)
2. to make loud sucking noises while eating or drinking: to slurp when eating soup.
–noun
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.

Origin:
1640–50; < D slurpen (v.)
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slurp   (slûrp)   
v.   slurped, slurp·ing, slurps

v.   tr.
To eat or drink noisily.
v.   intr.
To eat or drink something noisily.
n.  
  1. A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking.

  2. Slang A mouthful of a liquid: took a slurp of grape juice.


[Dutch slurpen.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

slurp 
1648, from Du. slurpen, perhaps of imitative origin (cf. Ger. schlurfen). The noun is first recorded 1949.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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.
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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