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glop

/ɡlɒp/

glop verb: to stare in amazement.

Verb (1)

glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) To stare in amazement.

Noun

glop (countable and uncountable, plural glops)

  1. (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.
    • He inserted the needle, and in about thirty seconds the most disgusting greenish glop started to drop into the bowl.2012, Kathryn Lasky, Chasing Orion, page 308
    Synonyms:
    gloop, goop
  2. (countable, informal) A gooey blob of some substance.
    • Got out a jack knife & scraped glops of wax off the floor.1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    • Kylarai studied me as I picked a glop of mascara from one lash.2015, Kristen L. Middleton, W. J. May, Suzy Turner, Darlings of Darkness
    Synonyms:
    glob

Verb (2)

glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)

  1. (informal, transitive) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.
    • Near-synonyms: slap, slop
    • He unscrewed the top from the pot, dipped the stick in, and clumsily glopped the white mess onto the handbill Minnie was holding. “You are an untidy paster.”2012, Courtney Milan, The Duchess War
    Synonyms:
    slap, slop
  2. (archaic, slang, transitive) To swallow greedily.
    • […] drinking something. Probably that nasty spinach concoction she glopped down every morning.2014, Michelle Mankin, Captivating Bridge
    Synonyms:
    gulp

Synonyms of glop

All synonyms of glop

Forms of glop

Verb
third-person singular presentglops
present participleglopping
past participleglopped
pastglopped
Noun
pluralglops

Origin of glop

Variation of glope.

1940-45, of expressive origin. Compare goop, gulp.

Words formed from glop

Words that rhyme with glop

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Questions about glop

What does glop mean?
Glop means to stare in amazement.
What part of speech is glop?
Glop can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce glop?
Glop is pronounced /ɡlɒp/.
What is the past tense of glop?
The past tense of glop is glopped.

Words near glop in the dictionary

  1. glooping
  2. gloops
  3. gloopy
  4. Gloor
  5. Gloors
  6. glop
  7. glope
  8. gloped
  9. glopes
  10. gloping
  11. glopped

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