Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mixture of high-energy foods, such as nuts and dried fruit, eaten as a snack.
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- noun A loose
mixture of driedfruit ,nuts , frequentlysalt , and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I remember the days when we used to call trail mix "gorp" and my aunt Melantha, one of the original hippies replete with unshaven legs and armpits and flowers in her hair, used to make it with carob instead of chocolate because that was the "natural" way.
Politics Salon Staff 2010
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I remember the days when we used to call trail mix "gorp" and my aunt Melantha, one of the original hippies replete with unshaven legs and armpits and flowers in her hair, used to make it with carob instead of chocolate because that was the "natural" way.
Politics Mandee Tatum 2010
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Back when I had little fat to draw on I needed a lot of calories to keep me going - during the day, gorp worked (raisins, peanuts, and M&Ms).
what is the best food to keep you energized and alert while hunting big game? 2010
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But then as the zombie virus spreads it seems they all get bruised looking eyes, blood and gore on their faces and they spit blackish or green gorp from their mouths, which might be blood or rotting guts or who knows.
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So, we slouched back to the bug, turned down the road, and pulled in to the campsite for the night, where we shared a hefty bag of gorp.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part I Richard Bangs 2011
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Back when I had little fat to draw on I needed a lot of calories to keep me going - during the day, gorp worked (raisins, peanuts, and M&Ms).
what is the best food to keep you energized and alert while hunting big game? 2010
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So, we slouched back to the bug, turned down the road, and pulled in to the campsite for the night, where we shared a hefty bag of gorp.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part I Richard Bangs 2011
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They snacked on gorp and water and, after refilling their bottles, moved on.
Broken Symmetry Angela Brett 2010
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WHY THAT'S GREAT NEWS: Even when the aliens spread out to the rest of the world, their mistaken first impressions will cause them to spin their wheels trying to liquidate humanity's "gorp reserves."
Rob Kutner: Today's Sign of the Apocalypse: Little Green Measures 2008
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Our older subconscious brain moves reflexively ( "We're hungry, eat that mushroom now"), while our newer prefrontal cortex struggles to catch up with other alternatives ( "Check your guidebook to see if it's poisonous or wait until we get to camp and eat some gorp").
Faulty Powers 2008
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GORP — shorthand for outdoor gear, for any beautiful BBSP newcomers out there — is bigger than any one fire garment.
Are you wearing CURSED GORP?? Blackbird Spyplane 2020
chained_bear commented on the word gorp
"She was still a puppy at the time ... the quintessential Alaskan mutt. Before we could break out the dog biscuits and gorp, there was a sudden release of the tremendous compressed energy that the ... glacier had exerted on the lake ice...."
--Tom Yeager, "Marking Time With a Glacier," Newsweek, May 12, 2008, 17.
May 15, 2008
whichbe commented on the word gorp
A mixture of high-energy foods, such as nuts and dried fruit, eaten as a snack. Origin by acronym for "Good Old Raisins and Peanuts". (From WordCraft)
May 20, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word gorp
Yay! I found a new rhymeless word today!
March 11, 2016
qms commented on the word gorp
Once sign for a number or pound
Now hashtag and hex more abound.
I pluck from this gorp
The bright octothorpe -
A name for a key sans a sound.
March 11, 2016
bilby commented on the word gorp
whorp
March 11, 2016
pterodactyl commented on the word gorp
Oh.
March 13, 2016
pterodactyl commented on the word gorp
Yay! I found a new word with an obscure rhyme today!
March 13, 2016
bilby commented on the word gorp
:-)
March 14, 2016