slush

slush

noun

Definition of SLUSH

1

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense <how can you stand to read that slush in the tabloids?>

Synonyms applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle

Related Words absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy; absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole); double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus

Near Antonyms levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness; common sense, horse sense, sense; discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom

2

soft wet earth <he paused in front of the doorway to wipe the slush off of his boots>

Synonyms guck (or gook), mire, muck, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush

Related Words gumbo, silt; clay, dirt, gravel, humus, loam, sand, soil

3

something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental <a musical that has been reviled as pure slush by the New York critics>

Synonyms goo, mush, schmaltz (also schmalz), sludge, slush, soap opera, sorghum

Related Words claptrap, drivel, rubbish, tripe

4

that which is of low quality or worth <discovered that slush is what publishers want, so that's exactly what she'll write>

Synonyms cheese, crapola [slang], dreck (also drek), muck, rubbish, sleaze, slop, slush, trash, tripe

Related Words camp, kitsch; claptrap, humbug, nonsense; bomb, clinker, clunker, dud, lemon, stinker, turkey; mess, muddle, shambles