slopping

present participle of slop
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as in splashing
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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Recent Examples of slopping In the season-two premiere’s final moments, the group’s s’mores-making endeavor descends into gooey chaos, with everyone burning and slopping and dripping marshmallow, chocolate, and peanut butter everywhere. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slopping
Verb
  • Guard Chelsea Gray scored eight of her 17 points in overtime, splashing two critical 3-pointers.
    Ben Pickman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Other ways to stimulate the vagus nerve include cold exposure, like splashing cold water on your face or taking a brief cold shower.
    Clarissa Brincat, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There’s an immediacy to devouring the music.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • To stay alive, Pi must now find a way to co-habitate with a companion who has other ideas, such as devouring him.
    Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Simply inhaling for four counts and exhaling for four counts brings oxygen to your muscles, reducing the emotion's intensity and relaxing the body.
    Juli Fraga, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In particular, inhaling Aspergillus fumigatus can cause serious lung problems, including invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, aspergilloma, allergic asthma, pneumonitis and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One night Icarius got all his friends together for a wine-tasting party that quickly got out of hand and turned into a wine-gulping party.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The pressure is always on the taker, the player standing, gulping, trying desperately not to unload their lunch onto the turf, preparing to do something theoretically simple — kick the ball into the net from 12 yards with only one opponent able to stop them.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Government funding has been appropriated this way for the past nine fiscal years, with Congress cramming 108 spending measures into 13 bills.
    Lazaro Gamio, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of cramming it all into a tiny box, Robeta gave it a soft curtain enclosure that keeps the look minimal and the space functional.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Slopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slopping. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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