slopped

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
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Verb
  • Basically, the term means that if you get splashed with water, the sunscreen won’t instantly come off.
    — Iman Balagam, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2026
  • All that changed on Wednesday morning — when a massive great white shark splashed him with its tail in the waters off Oceano, on California’s Central Coast.
    — Stephanie Zappelli, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
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  • Here are the best of the hundreds of novels King fans have devoured for decades.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 21 Oct. 2026
  • If the demons find out about her power, she will be devoured.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Waves of water sloshed onto the streets of South Florida earlier this week, flooding cars and soaking feet.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
  • More than $600 billion has sloshed through the legal sportsbooks in wagers — and brought billions in state tax revenue — in the last eight years.
    — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Severity depends on the amount of bacteria that’s inhaled, the strain that’s involved and individual susceptibility, Vanrompay says.
    — Rachel Melegrito, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Apparently Robyn is the only one who has inhaled enough fresh air to recognize the friction.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026
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
Verb
  • Trump crammed the Oval Office with gold flourishes, demolished the East Wing to build a sprawling ballroom and converted the Rose Garden into a patio space reminiscent of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The rambunctious teenagers crammed into a lecture hall suddenly went quiet when a woman old enough to be their great-grandmother, and smaller in stature than many of them, approached the podium.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Which might explain why some have scoffed the film’s designation as a documentary.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Trump scoffed at questions about affordability, insisting that they'd been caused by Biden, who left office more than two years ago.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party gobbled up many votes that his right-wing and Orthodox Jewish coalition partners had expected would be theirs.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Having been gobbled up like a meal worm, Jay dredges up flashbacks of his father’s lectures in whale anatomy.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Slopped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slopped. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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