slurry

Noun

slurry (countable and uncountable, plural slurries)

1. Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
   • While little information is available, it probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry.1981, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Feeding Value of Ethanol Production By-products, page 26
   • The most important application of fluid flow techniques in the mineral processing industry is the transportation of slurries. Whenever solid materials are in particulate form transportation in the form of a slurry is possible.2002, R. Peter King, Introduction to Practical Fluid Flow, page 81
2. Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
   • Slurry tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for slurry tailings.2006, Raymond N. Yong, Catherine N. Mulligan, Masaharu Fukue, Geoenvironmental Sustainability, page 145
3. A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
   • In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry.2004, W. H. Rulkens, “11: Overview of resource recovery techmologies for biowaste”, in Piet Lens, B. Hamelers, Harry Hoitink, Werner Bidlingmaier, editors, Resource Recovery and Reuse in Organic...
4. A thickener.

Verb

slurry (third-person singular simple present slurries, present participle slurrying, simple past and past participle slurried)

1. To make a slurry (of some material).
2. To apply a slurry (to).
   • Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.

Adjective

US/ˈslɝi/UK/ˈslɜːɹi/

slurry (comparative slurrier, superlative slurriest)

1. Slurred, tending to slur.
   • He spoke with a slurry voice.
   • His voice became progressively slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.