Definition of slurp
: to eat or drink noisily or with a sucking sound
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Examples of slurp in a Sentence
He always slurps his soup.
his dinner date slurped her soup directly from the bowl
Recent Examples of slurp from the Web
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The blurs of bobbing pink necks are distinctly woodpecker-like in their chaotic, slurp-tastic quest for krill.
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The switch came in response to requests from both customers and store employees, the company said, and became more urgent as cold drinks—typically slurped through straws—surged in popularity.
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Stage two is the software engine that can start messing around with and slurping up your data, including browser history, usernames, and passwords.
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Zachary Dasch slurped from his bottle, oblivious to discussion about the cultural relativity of parenting practices.
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Nashville is a boomtown, slurping up millennials and immigrants to work in health care, tech, auto parts, and education.
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The three women slurp their mango drinks laced with chamoy and chile-lime salt and reflect on the things that inspire their activism.
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When the grasshoppers arrive, a hopper pattern or live insect is almost guaranteed to get slurped.
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If three more—and no fewer—trigger hairs are tapped, the plant then secretes a cocktail of insect-digesting enzymes, letting the flytrap slurp up the prey's nutrients.
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Origin and Etymology of slurp
Dutch slurpen; akin to Middle Low German slorpen to slurp
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First Known Use: 1648
in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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Synonyms
belt (down), drink, gulp, guzzle, hoist, imbibe, knock back, pound (down), quaff, sip, slug (down), sup, swig, swill, toss (down or off);
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Definition of slurp for English Language Learners
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: to eat or drink (something) noisily or with a sucking sound
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Definition of slurp for Students
slurped;
slurping
: to eat or drink noisily or with a sucking sound
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