1
: a thick semiliquid substance (such as food) that is usually unattractive in appearance
2
: tasteless or worthless material
Examples of glop in a Sentence
I remember the glop they used to feed us for school lunch.
the restaurant served glop that brought back unpleasant memories of my high school cafeteria
Recent Examples on the Web
Suddenly the glops and drips look sonic, like musical bursts and pings.
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Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
His breakthrough short movie-sculpture-painting, Men Getting Sick (1960), involved casting his own head in plaster, and applying more of the glop to the screen.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
—Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
The way language glops out of everyone’s mouth like soft-serve ice cream.
—Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 June 2023
What passed for salad—diced potatoes tossed with Russian dressing, or a half-head of doubtful-looking iceberg drenched in an indeterminate glop—wasn’t very appealing alongside traditional Chinese fare.
—James T. Areddy, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2021
Later in the movie, there’s an even less convincing glop of social commentary.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
Well, there’s nothing like a little gratuitous sincerity after a great deal of inexplicable green glop.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
Every single table seemed to have ordered the rigatoni, which was hardly the pink glop of your average red-sauce place—these noodles were dense, curvaceous, bathed in cream laced with tomato and just a whisper of heat.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
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Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
His breakthrough short movie-sculpture-painting, Men Getting Sick (1960), involved casting his own head in plaster, and applying more of the glop to the screen.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
—Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
The way language glops out of everyone’s mouth like soft-serve ice cream.
—Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 June 2023
What passed for salad—diced potatoes tossed with Russian dressing, or a half-head of doubtful-looking iceberg drenched in an indeterminate glop—wasn’t very appealing alongside traditional Chinese fare.
—James T. Areddy, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2021
Later in the movie, there’s an even less convincing glop of social commentary.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
Well, there’s nothing like a little gratuitous sincerity after a great deal of inexplicable green glop.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
Every single table seemed to have ordered the rigatoni, which was hardly the pink glop of your average red-sauce place—these noodles were dense, curvaceous, bathed in cream laced with tomato and just a whisper of heat.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
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“Glop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glop. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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