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
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  • Power to the People is a portrait of John and Yoko as a young married couple splashing down in New York City, making friends with the local radicals and con men and boho scenesters.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Monday’s flight was similar to the previous one, again deploying a batch of mock Starlink satellites, briefly re-lighting its engines in space and testing new heat shield tiles during its blazing hot return from space before splashing down west of Australia.
    Reuters, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • Outdoor spiders are hard at work, devouring home and garden pests such as ants, flies, mosquitoes, aphids, and thrips.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Gwyneth Paltrow and Odessa A’zion are exquisite in their supporting roles, devouring every morsel of the Safdie and Ronald Bronstein script.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • To boot, the hundreds of billions of dollars sloshing around the AI industry has left investors with plenty of cash to back up their optimism.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • Miners argue increased subjection to the dust has led to an eruption of black lung, an incurable disease associated with inhaling the particles.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Amy Louise Leonard, 20, a makeup artist from Greater Manchester in England, lost the ability to walk for three weeks after inhaling a balloon filled with nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing gas.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • 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
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  • So cramming those two tones together is a hard thing to do.
    H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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“Slopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slopping. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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