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
Sunset Magazine2
: 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
slushed; slushing; slushes
: to wet or splash with slush
Examples of slush in a Sentence
Noun
a sidewalk covered with slush
The movie is just a lot of romantic slush.
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Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Margie’s Intention, the morning line’s second favorite trained by Brad Cox, played the conditions, hanging back until Paris Lily lost her legs in the deep slush.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
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
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Noun
The resulting mix is a ball of slush just solid enough to stay together, but definitely mushier than, say, a hailstone; picture a wet snowball.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Margie’s Intention, the morning line’s second favorite trained by Brad Cox, played the conditions, hanging back until Paris Lily lost her legs in the deep slush.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 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
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“Slush.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slush. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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