slush
/slʌʃ/
slush noun: half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
Noun
slush (usually uncountable, plural slushes)
- Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
- As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.
- Synonyms:
- slush ice
- Liquid mud or mire.
- Flavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).
- Synonyms:
- slushy, slushie, slurpee, slush puppy, Slush Puppie
- A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
- The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
- A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
- Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.
Verb
slush (third-person singular simple present slushes, present participle slushing, simple past and past participle slushed)
- To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
- The ungrateful “they” are Brooklynites who’ve come to see Harding-Mamary creations as a chain, where you can get it venti in a ramekin with crème fraîche or slushed with guava and salt on the rim.2008 July 9, Donald G. Mcneil, “Restless Pioneers, Seeding Brooklyn”, in New York Times
- To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
- The water was soon slushing merrily over the deck, while the smoke pouring from the cabin stove carried a promise of good things to come.1902, Jack London, The Cruise of the Dazzler
- Sitting inside the Starbucks on Broadway near Roscoe, two art students had tired of sketching people slushing through the two-day-old snow.1994 March 4, Dave Wiethop, Sandi Abadinski, “Reader to Reader”, in Chicago Reader
- To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
slush meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
slush in Hindi
- स्लश, स्लश करें
slush in Marathi
- स्लश
slush in Urdu
- سلش
slush in Bengali
- কর্দমাক্ত বরফ
More languagesFewer languages
- slush in Telugu
- స్లష్
- slush in Malayalam
- കുഴഞ്ഞ മഞ്ഞ്, ഉരുകിയ മഞ്ഞ്, മൺകുഴമ്പ്, പതമുള്ള ചെളി
- slush in Kannada
- ಕರಗಿದ ಮಂಜು, ಕರಗುತ್ತಿರುವ ಮಂಜು, ನೀರುಕೆಸರು, ಗೊಡ್ಡು ಬರವಣಿಗೆ
- slush in Punjabi
- ਸਲੱਸ਼
- slush in Gujarati
- સ્લશ, સ્લુશ
- slush in Nepali
- स्लस, स्लुस गर्न
- slush in Arabic
- وَحْل waḥl, سلاش
Examples of slush in a sentence
- He is said to have used his party’s slush fund to buy votes in the election.
- I’d like to see more experimentation in signal wave slush and future funk slush, for example.
- A slush fund is a sum of money that is set aside as a reserve.
Synonyms of slush
Forms of slush
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | slushes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | slushes |
| present participle | slushing |
| past participle | slushed |
| past | slushed |
Origin of slush
May be a variant of sludge or imitative like slosh. Perhaps a confluence of both influences.
Words formed from slush
Phrases with slush
Words that rhyme with slush
Questions about slush
- What does slush mean?
- Slush means half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
- What is slush in Hindi?
- Slush in Hindi is स्लश, स्लश करें. See Slush meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is slush?
- Slush can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce slush?
- Slush is pronounced /slʌʃ/.
- What is the plural of slush?
- The plural of slush is slushes.
Words near slush in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: slush (page history and authors); slush (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slush (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slush (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slush (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slush (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slush (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); slush (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slush (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slush (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slush (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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