glop
5
9.0
- noun
- /ɡlɑp/
- Informal
:
masa viscosa
- As my top-loading washer fills with water, I dump in a half cup of the "glop" and wait for it to dissolve before adding the clothes, but the glop never dissolves!
- sticky green glop
- thick glop
- sticky brown glop
Examples
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Pour milk on popcorn, and it instantly becomes a soggy glop.
Blog text (28) -
What is that glop you're eating?
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A big glop of chocolate shake lands on the keyboard.
Fiction book (2000) -
Tammy, can you stir the glop up to mix each time?
Blog text (18) -
Almost anything homemade is better than the canned glop!
Blog text (6) -
The children squealed in disgust as they stepped into the gooey glop on the ground.
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After the storm, the yard was filled with a thick glop of mud and debris.
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He scraped the sticky glop off his shoes before entering the house.
Synonyms
85
1.8
A thick slippery substance that feels wet and sticky
59
3.0
A thick sticky substance that is soft and wet
30
4.8
A thick, wet, muddy substance that comes from dirty water
15
4.6
Thick sticky stuff that is dirty or unpleasant
15
4.8
A small thick sticky piece of something like honey or paint
10
7.5
A thick sticky substance that is often messy
6
9.9
A thick lump of sticky stuff like glue
3
9.9
A sticky, greasy dirt that is hard to remove
3
7.2
A small round drop of liquid
1
7.7
A thick sticky substance that is hard to remove
1
9.5
A thick sticky substance that looks dirty and unpleasant
1
5.4
A thick glue-like substance that clings to things and makes a mess
1
7.9
A small soft lump of sticky, wet material
A thick, sticky, dirty substance that is unpleasant to touch
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Glop probably comes from a sound word like gloop that copies the wet, squishy noise made by thick liquid. So glop means a shapeless, 'thick and sticky' mess.