Glop

//ɡlɒp// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any gooey substance. informal, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental wordnet
  3. 3
    A gooey blob of some substance. countable, informal

    "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."

  4. 4
    any gummy shapeless matter; usually unpleasant wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To stare in amazement. archaic, dialectal
  2. 2
    To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily. informal, transitive

    "Near-synonyms: slap, slop"

  3. 3
    To swallow greedily. archaic, slang, transitive

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

Synonyms

All synonyms
treaclealbumenbatterbonnyclabberbutterclabber

Example

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variation of glope.

Etymology 2

1940-45, of expressive origin. Compare goop, gulp.

Related phrases

hoppy glop

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