Glop

/ɡlɒp/ · verb

Meaning

(dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement..

Definitions by Sense

1. (dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement.
2. (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.
3. (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
4. (transitive, informal) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.
5. (transitive, archaic or slang) To swallow greedily.

Example Sentences

He inserted the needle, and in about thirty seconds the most disgusting greenish glop started to drop into the bowl.

1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Got out a jack knife & scraped glops of wax off the floor.

Kylarai studied me as I picked a glop of mascara from one lash.

Near-synonyms: slap, slop

He unscrewed the top from the pot, dipped the stick in, and clumsily glopped the white mess onto the handbill Minnie was holding. “You are an untidy paster.”

[…] drinking something. Probably that nasty spinach concoction she glopped down every morning.

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Word Forms

• glops
• glopping
• glopped

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