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slosh

UK/slɒʃ//slɑʃ/

slosh verb: to shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

Verb

slosh (third-person singular simple present sloshes, present participle sloshing, simple past and past participle sloshed)

  1. (intransitive) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
    • The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
    Synonyms:
    slush
  2. (transitive) To cause to slosh.
    • The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.
  3. (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.
    • His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.
  4. (transitive) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.
    • The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.
    • He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.
  5. (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.
    • The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.
  6. (UK, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
    • She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and...1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII

Noun (1)

slosh (countable and uncountable, plural sloshes)

  1. (countable) A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
    • We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
  2. (countable) A sloshing sound or motion.
  3. (uncountable) Slush.
    • Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This, page 299
  4. (slang) Inferior wine or other drink.
    • In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh.2005, Stuart Walton, Understanding, Choosing, and Enjoying Wine, page 86
  5. (uncountable) A game related to billiards.
    • Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty.
      We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt

Noun (2)

slosh (plural sloshes)

  1. (slang) backslash, the character \.

slosh meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

slosh in Malayalam

slop, spill, splash
ഇളകിത്തുളുമ്പുക, തുളുമ്പി ഒഴുകുക, തൂകുക, തെറിക്കുക, തുളുമ്പുക, ചിന്തുക
splash, swash, squelch
വെള്ളം തെറിപ്പിക്കുക, തുടിക്കുക, പാളിച്ചുവീഴ്ത്തുക, ഗ്ലക്ക് ശബ്ദം ഉണ്ടാക്കുക, വെള്ളത്തിൽ നീന്തിനടക്കുക, വെള്ളത്തിലൂടെ ആയാസപ്പെട്ടു നടക്കുക
pour, slop, splash
പകരുക, ഒഴിക്കുക, വീഴ്ത്തുക, പാളിക്കുക
hit, punch, strike
അടിക്കുക, ഇടിക്കുക, തല്ലുക, ആഹനിക്കുക, ഉപഹനിക്കുക, എറ്റുക

slosh in Kannada

ಅಲುಗಾಡಿಸು, ಕಲಕು, ಚೆಲ್ಲು, ತೋಯು, ಹೊರಳಾಡು, ಹೊಸಕಾಡು

Examples of slosh in a sentence

  • Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.
  • An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.
  • 'Buckets of blood, huh?' 'Big sloshing buckets.

All 15 example sentences with slosh

Synonyms of slosh

Forms of slosh

Verb
third-person singular presentsloshes
present participlesloshing
past participlesloshed
pastsloshed
Noun
pluralsloshes

Past tense of slosh: sloshed

Origin of slosh

Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.

By analogy with slash.

Words formed from slosh

Questions about slosh

What does slosh mean?
Slosh means to shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
What is slosh in Malayalam?
Slosh in Malayalam is ഇളകിത്തുളുമ്പുക, തുളുമ്പി ഒഴുകുക, തൂകുക. See Slosh meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is slosh?
Slosh can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce slosh?
Slosh is pronounced /slɒʃ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of slosh?
The past tense of slosh is sloshed.

Words near slosh in the dictionary

  1. slorp
  2. slorped
  3. slorping
  4. slorps
  5. SLOs
  6. slosh
  7. sloshball
  8. sloshed
  9. sloshed to the gills
  10. sloshes
  11. sloshier

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: slosh (page history and authors); slosh (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); slosh (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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