a thick semiliquid substance (as food) that is unattractive
the restaurant served glop that brought back unpleasant memories of my high school cafeteria
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Recent Examples of glopThe dirt didn’t look different to her: no holes, no ripped piece of lawn, but was there something growing in the mud glop?—Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026 But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025 Plaster bandages, the type used in bone-setting casts, go over the glop.—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025 Suddenly the glops and drips look sonic, like musical bursts and pings.—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025 Later in the movie, there’s an even less convincing glop of social commentary.—Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glop
goo
Noun
Disappointingly, the alien elements don’t reach full Screaming Mad George surrealism until the end of the movie, relying a bit too much on blue goo and screaming along the way.
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Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
There's plenty of gore and goo — the transformation process is not pretty.