slosh

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To shift chaotically

   To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

   • The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
2. 2

   To cause to slosh.

   • The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.
3. 3

   To make a sloshing sound.

   • His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.
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   1. 4

      To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.

      • The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.
      • He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.
   2. 5

      to move noisily through water or other liquid.

      • The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.
   3. 6

      To punch (someone).

   4. 7

      A quantity of a liquid

      A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

      • We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
   5. 8

      A sloshing sound or motion.

   6. 9

      Slush.

      • Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.
   7. 10

      Inferior wine or other drink.

      • In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh.
   8. 11

      A game related to billiards.

      • Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.
   9. 12

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