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 ...