Definition of slosh
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: slush 1
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: the slap or splash of liquid
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There's no purchase when the slosh gets rutted and deep enough.
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At one moment, a massive wall of water will build and at the last second slosh against the shore, while another more sneaky operator will thunder in and send spray a dozen feet into the air.
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And then picture that through these intestines coursed not only this morning’s breakfast in a slosh of digestive juices but another unlikely component: oxygen.
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Garlic chopped to a fine mist and warmed with clam juice and olive oil sloshes under the baked littlenecks, a dozen to an order.
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Ken rustled papers on his desk, fighting a weird slosh of tears.
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Origin and Etymology of slosh
probably blend of slop and slush
Definition of slosh
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: to flounder or splash through water, mud, or slush
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: to move with a splashing motion
- the water sloshed around him
- —Bill Alcine
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: to splash about in liquid
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: to splash (a liquid) about or on something
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: to splash with liquid
Examples of slosh in a Sentence
The children sloshed through the big puddle.
Water sloshed in the bottom of the boat as it rocked.
Juice sloshed over the rim of her glass.
The child sloshed the water in the tub.
Recent Examples of slosh from the Web
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Photo: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News And that’s worrying given how much money is sloshing around in China.
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For socks, don’t forget the cotton rule, because no one wants to be stuck sloshing around with wet feet for 10 miles.
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In the wheelhouse, Huynh tried to right the ship, but seawater was already sloshing against the cabin's windows.
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If New Orleans is an aging beauty queen drunk on the fumes of her glorious past, Plaquemines Parish, to the southeast, is plain old sloshed — not to mention saturated, striated, slivered and surrounded by water.
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The electrons should be thought of as waves, sloshing around the nuclei.
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With plenty of room for extra layers, a first aid kit, and lunch, the Franconia also features a lumbar style hydration pack which helps center the weight on the hip and prevents water sloshing.
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Residents have complained of an increase in smells and flies since the operation started early last year, and times when wet sludge material sloshed out of trucks and onto county roads.
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This is because the pot was shaken at the resonant frequency of the waves sloshing around within it.
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First Known Use of slosh
1844
SLOSH Defined for English Language Learners
slosh
Definition of slosh for English Language Learners
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: to walk through water, mud, etc., in a forceful and noisy way
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of a liquid : to move in a noisy or messy way
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: to cause (a liquid) to move in a noisy or messy way
SLOSH Defined for Kids
verb
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ˈsläsh
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Definition of slosh for Students
sloshed;
sloshing
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: to walk with trouble through water, mud, or slush
- Deeper and deeper … they sloshed through the cavernous sewer.
- —Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy
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: to move with a splashing motion
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