syrup

plural syrups · alternative sirop · alternative sirup · alternative syrop

1. countableuncountableAny thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.

   maple syrup

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   pancake syrup

   peaches in syrup

   In Somerset, for example, the local farmers would often boil down the beet juice to create a honey tender, a viscous syrup that sweetened the harvest porridge.

   1922, Arthur J. P. Williams, Rural Industries of the West Country, page 42

   With jellies soother than the creamy curd, / And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; [...]

   1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXX, page 98

2. broadlycountableuncountableAny viscous liquid.

   rose syrup

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   cough syrup

3. countablefigurativelyuncountableAnything overly sweet or sentimental.

   Eventually, he or his staunch public tired of his easy-listening syrup, so Price recorded gospel for the Myrrh label before semi-retiring to his Golden Cross Ranch in Texas.

   1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 266

4. Cockneycountableslanguncountableshortened from "syrup of figs"A wig.

present singular third person syrups · participle present syruping · participle past syruped · past syruped

1. transitiveTo convert or process into syrup.
2. transitiveTo add syrup to.
3. transitiveTo sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.