slopped

verb

past tense of slop
1
as in splashed
to cause (something liquid or mushy) to move along in sheets she slopped water everywhere when she picked up the full pan

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2
as in devoured
to swallow or eat greedily watched the game while slopping prodigious quantities of beer

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Recent Examples of slopped Judging from the way Sam slopped wine into the glasses, at least five or six bottles. — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slopped
  1. splashed
  2. devoured
  3. sloshed
  4. inhaled
  5. gulped
  6. crammed
  7. scoffed
  8. gobbled
Verb
  • Brighton splashed £30million on then 18-year-old Kostoulas from Olympiacos in his homeland during last year’s summer window.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The rocket's Super Heavy booster detached from the Starship spacecraft about two minutes into the flight, and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico.
    — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of splashed
Verb
  • Only weeks ago, the most destructive wildfire in Spanish history devoured 500 square kilometers (193 square miles) and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in central Spain.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Only weeks ago, the most destructive wildfire in Spanish history devoured 500 square kilometers (193 square miles) and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in Ávila, in central Spain.
    — Suman Naishadham, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of devoured
Verb
  • My little water bottle sloshed in my backpack, now half empty.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
  • His blood sloshed through the device’s tiny channels and pressed against its protein snares.
    — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2026
Definition of sloshed
Verb
  • Spores can enter through a cut in the skin or be inhaled or ingested.
    — RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
  • There's been a drastic increase Fine particulates and gases, including carbon monoxide, are inhaled and can lodge deep within the lungs, causing inflammation and irritation.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 July 2026
Definition of inhaled
Verb
  • That public has continually widened its gullet and gulped.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Many years had passed since Caity Maple, a Sacramento councilmember, gulped down orange juice.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2026
Definition of gulped
Verb
  • Vintage clothes lovers will find Notio Bene Vintage, Mink Vintage, and Leila Boutique all crammed next to each other along the corner of Cukur Cuma Street and Boğazkesen Street.
    — CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2026
  • There’s been little diplomatic progress since then, as the Israeli army has advanced beyond armistice lines against a shrinking Hamas fiefdom where some 2 million Palestinians are crammed.
    — Dan Williams, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of crammed
Verb
  • The idea that schools might directly pay college athletes, whose jerseys sometimes generated millions of dollars in sales, through a revenue-sharing model would have been scoffed at in 2003.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 July 2026
  • McClintock’s colleagues, obsessed with scientific reductionism, scoffed at her near-spiritual dedication to understanding organismal biology in its fullness and complexity.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
Definition of scoffed
Verb
  • For three consecutive evenings, just before dark, this bird zipped to the dining table, gobbled down a quick meal, then hurried back to its roost.
    — Tom Huggler, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Chelsea have now gobbled up 17 non-‘Big Six’ players in the past decade, something which speaks to both their rampant transfer activity and a seeming preference for young players already proven in England’s top division.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of gobbled

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