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Recent Examples of glop
But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
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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
Well, there’s nothing like a little gratuitous sincerity after a great deal of inexplicable green glop.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 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
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
Well, there’s nothing like a little gratuitous sincerity after a great deal of inexplicable green glop.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 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
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In one, the kitten sits by a backyard swimming pool full of rainbow goo.—
John Ruwitch,
NPR,
28 Aug. 2025
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On August 17, the agency posted a photo on social media of someone holding what appears to be a large ball of gelatinous goo.—
Kelli Bender,
People.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Glop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glop. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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