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
  • Even the band’s Interscope debut, 1991’s Sailing the Seas of Cheese, only splashed a thin layer of lacquer onto an ugly, unruly beast.
    — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The retreat debuts on the heels of a Dioriveria pop-up boutique at the Belmond property that splashed down there earlier this summer.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 27 July 2026
Definition of splashed
Verb
  • Their father devoured his meal, slurping up soup with his right hand and swallowing bread spread with miso paste with his left.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Suddenly, you’re scooped up, whisked to a perch, and efficiently devoured by a blue dasher dragonfly.
    — Rachel Sargent Mirus, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of devoured
Verb
  • His blood sloshed through the device’s tiny channels and pressed against its protein snares.
    — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2026
  • Water sloshed across a shallow, rocky shelf, sweeping away the sediments there, along with the algae that serves as the primary food source for this species.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 7 May 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
  • Oddly enough, though floors 1 through 16 looked like offices behind the cladding of specially tinted glass framed in stainless steel, they were actually crammed with electronics and electromechanical relays.
    — David Szondy August 01, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2026
  • To have so much capability crammed into a phone that bends in half is a marvel.
    — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 22 July 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
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  • In June, in a move that reverberated through the tech industry, Apple raised prices across nearly all of its product lines in response to the surging costs of memory and storage, which are being gobbled up for AI infrastructure.
    — Mark Yarm, PC Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The Scottish Premiership is not platforming nearly enough teenage talents and the very best ones are being gobbled up by English academies.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of gobbled

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