slush

IPA: sɫˈʌʃ

noun

  • Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
  • Liquid mud or mire.
  • Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.
  • A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
  • The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
  • (engineering) A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
  • (publishing) Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.

verb

  • To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
  • To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
  • To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
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Examples of "slush" in Sentences

  • Our's is already turning to slush.
  • They make a slightly wetter slush.
  • A slush pit was also made of wood.
  • Found this in the commons slush pile.
  • They make a very fine and 'dry' slush.
  • Its purpose is to make slush, not snow.
  • Maybe treat the article as a slush page.
  • It's no problem with an operational slush fund.
  • They found that slush was the most effective mix.
  • After a while, the water cools and will eventually slush and then freeze.
  • I'd have thought issues of volume in slush would make the query process more effective.
  • "Having had some time to think about it, the caller and I shouldn't have used the term slush fund; that was incorrect.
  • Now the dirty tactics must be financed through dirty money in what I call a slush fund and what I predict the law will call
  • "Having had some time to think about it, the caller and I shouldn't have used the term slush fund; that was incorrect," Angle said.
  • "They were looking for what they called slush funds stashed away by the former president, but no such funds existed," a Seongnam police official told AFP, refusing to disclose his name.
  • Owing to the fact that the energy which bears it downward is through friction converted into heat, a partial melting of the mass may take place, which converts it into what we call slush, or a mixture of snow and water.
  • And then I was thinking to myself that it was a good job that we had the stern, manly feeling to comfort us of our hard work being our duty, when I heard the _slush, slush, slush, slush_, sound of feet coming along the trenches, and then my sergeant said:
  • Jasper, these are some outrageously uniformed comments you are making … States are set to receive at least $120 billion (15% of the entire stimulus) in slush fund money (supposedly allocated for and FMAP increase and education funds) that can be spent however they want b/c money is fungible.
  • And I'm one of those who's ambivalent about the issue -- on the one hand, I'd love to see more women in the F&SF TOC, on the other, it does look as though the ratio of women in the slush is the same as women selling ... and it's often a matter of editorial taste, which is something GVG is very honest about, publicly, and I really respect that, but on the other hand ...

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