glop

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To stare in amazement.

2. 2

   Any gooey substance.

   • He inserted the needle, and in about thirty seconds the most disgusting greenish glop started to drop into the bowl.
3. 3

   A gooey blob of some substance.

   • 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Got out a jack knife & scraped glops of wax off the floor.
   • Kylarai studied me as I picked a glop of mascara from one lash.
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   1. 4

      To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.

      • Near-synonyms: slap, slop
      • He unscrewed the top from the pot, dipped the stick in, and clumsily glopped the white mess onto the handbill Minnie was holding. “You are an untidy paster.”
   2. 5

      To swallow greedily.

      • […] drinking something. Probably that nasty spinach concoction she glopped down every morning.

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