slush

plural slushes

1. uncountableusuallyHalf-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.

   As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.

   Synonyms: slush ice

2. uncountableusuallyLiquid mud or mire.
3. uncountableusuallyFlavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).

   Synonyms: slushy, slushie, slurpee, Slurpee, slush puppy, Slush Puppie

4. uncountableusuallyA soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
5. uncountableusuallyThe refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
6. uncountableusuallyengineeringA mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
7. uncountableusuallymediaUnsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.

present singular third person slushes · participle present slushing · participle past slushed · past slushed

1. transitiveTo smear with slushy liquid or grease.

   The ungrateful “they” are Brooklynites who’ve come to see Harding-Mamary creations as a chain, where you can get it venti in a ramekin with crème fraîche or slushed with guava and salt on the rim.

   2008 July 9, Donald G. Mcneil, “Restless Pioneers, Seeding Brooklyn”, in New York Times

2. intransitiveTo slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.

   A belated freshman, his oilskin slicker rasping loudly, slushed along the soft path.

   1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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   The water was soon slushing merrily over the deck, while the smoke pouring from the cabin stove carried a promise of good things to come.

   1902, Jack London, The Cruise of the Dazzler

   Sitting inside the Starbucks on Broadway near Roscoe, two art students had tired of sketching people slushing through the two-day-old snow.

   1994 March 4, Dave Wiethop, Sandi Abadinski, “Reader to Reader”, in Chicago Reader

   The deck below me was littered with chests, sea boots, and odds and ends of clothing, while farther aft considerable water had found entrance through the scuttle hole, and was slushing back and forth as the bark rolled.

   1918, Randall Parrish, Wolves of the Sea

   They climbed over fallen and moss-grown logs; they slushed through shallow water; they crawled on their hands and knees under embankments and rocks, and at last, at Handsome's order, they stepped into a boat of some kind which the latter pushed away from the bank with a pole.

   1907, Nicholas Carter, A Woman at Bay

   But as the boat stuck in the bottom and refused to stir, he suddenly dropped his hold, and with an "Avance done!" gallantly slushed his way into the water alongside, in his Sunday trousers, lifted the gunwale and started her afloat, amidst a shower of final "Au revoirs," and the rose chaloupe moved with noiseless smoothness down the current.

   1888, Wilfrid Chateauclair, The Young Seigneur

3. intransitiveTo paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.