SLUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slush mean? 

• SLUSH (noun)
  The noun SLUSH has 1 sense:

1. partially melted snow

  Familiarity information: SLUSH used as a noun is very rare.

• SLUSH (verb)
  The verb SLUSH has 2 senses:

1. make a splashing sound

2. spill or splash copiously or clumsily

  Familiarity information: SLUSH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Partially melted snow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("slush" is a kind of...):

H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)

Derivation:

slushy (being or resembling melting snow)

• SLUSH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they slush    ... he / she / it slushes   
Past simple: slushed   
Past participle: slushed   
-ing form: slushing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a splashing sound

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

slosh; slush; splash; splosh

Context example:

water was splashing on the floor

Hypernyms (to "slush" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frames:

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Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spill or splash copiously or clumsily

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

slosh; slosh around; slush; slush around

Context example:

slosh paint all over the walls

Hypernyms (to "slush" is one way to...):

plash; spatter; splash; splatter; splosh; swash (dash a liquid upon or against)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

This "snow" melts again before reaching the top of the ocean, possibly leaving slush in the middle of the moon sandwich.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

What they want is wish-wash and slush, and God knows they get it, but not from you.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It’s just so much slush and sentiment, and you must see it yourself, at least for one who does not believe in eternal life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Slimy gaps and causeways, winding among old wooden piles, with a sickly substance clinging to the latter, like green hair, and the rags of last year's handbills offering rewards for drowned men fluttering above high-water mark, led down through the ooze and slush to the ebb-tide.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)