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
  • In contrast to the mauve and powdery tones worn by both the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth II, Lady Di stood out in a deep blue dress splashed with large black polka dots.
    — Marta Martínez Tato, Vanity Fair, 24 July 2026
  • Janet dropped the shirt back into the sink, and scarlet bleach water splashed her in the face.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026
Definition of splashed
Verb
  • New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Missouri were recently devoured into a national fund.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Apocalyptic footage shows a Canadian train crew trapped in their locomotive as it’s devoured by a wildfire.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 15 July 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
  • 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
  • Dangers from wildfire smoke Smoke is made up of tiny particles that can be inhaled deep into a person's lungs and even enter the bloodstream.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 16 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
  • To have so much capability crammed into a phone that bends in half is a marvel.
    — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 22 July 2026
  • At least 5,000 people perished, most of them in La Guaira state, a strip of cities and slums crammed between the coastal cordillera and the Caribbean Sea, half an hour from Caracas.
    — Rafael Osío Cabrices, Time, 20 July 2026
Definition of crammed
Verb
  • 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
  • During Truist’s quarterly earnings call in April, Rogers scoffed at a Bloomberg report that the bank could potentially be a target for an acquisition by Citi.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 15 June 2026
Definition of scoffed
Verb
  • Young orcas then gobbled up fish fragments that drifted through the water as their elders tore into what was left of the sunfish’s corpse.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
  • Last year, The Studio barged in and gobbled up six nominations; this year, Hacks did the same.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 17 July 2026
Definition of gobbled

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