slush

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noun

ˈsləsh 

plural slushes

1

a

: partly melted or watery snow

b

: loose ice crystals formed during the early stages of freezing of salt water

c

: slushy

Cut watermelon into small chunks and freeze, then blend frozen fruit and buttermilk to make a cooling fruit slush.

—Sunset Magazine

2

: soft mud : mire

3

: refuse grease and fat from cooking especially on shipboard

4

: paper pulp in water suspension

5

: trashy and usually cheaply sentimental material

6

: unsolicited writings submitted (as to a magazine) for publication

slush

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verb

slushed; slushing; slushes

transitive verb

: to wet or splash with slush

intransitive verb

1

: to make one's way through slush

2

: to make a splashing sound

Synonyms

Noun

• garbage
• nuts
• nonsense
• rubbish
• drool
• blah
• muck
• stupidity
• silliness
• jazz
• trash
• beans

Examples of slush in a Sentence

Noun

a sidewalk covered with slush

The movie is just a lot of romantic slush.

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Too much alcohol and your dreamy dessert turns into a sad, semi-frozen slush. —Emily Price, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025

Then the dream warped into a nightmare, as some wretched souls began to freeze mid-step or drown in slush, while manic revelries raged all around them. —Literary Hub, 11 June 2025

Verb

So one misstep can turn a team’s championship dreams to slush. —Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022

Plow driver fired: A snowplow driver has been fired after his plow threw snow and slush onto the opposite side of the Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky, damaging 55 vehicles, Olivia Mitchell reports. —cleveland, 9 Feb. 2022

Word History

Etymology

Noun

perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian slusk slush

First Known Use

Noun

circa 1642, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

1807, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Phrases Containing slush

• slush fund

Rhymes for slush

• blush
• brush
• crush
• flush
• gush
• hush
• lush
• mush
• plush
• shush
• thrush
• airbrush

Kids Definition

slush

noun

ˈsləsh

1

: partly melted or watery snow

2

: soft mud : mire

3

: overly sentimental material