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slurp

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To eat or drink noisily.
  • intransitive verb To eat or drink something noisily.
  • noun A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking.
  • noun Slang A mouthful of a liquid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To eat or drink (something) noisily
  • noun A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking
  • noun A mouthful of liquid

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb eat noisily

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Dutch slurpen.]

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From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen ("to sip, slurp"), from Old Dutch *slurpen, from Proto-Germanic *slarpanan (“to sip, slurp”), from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian slurvje ("to slurp"), German schlürfen ("to sip, slurp"), Swedish slurpa ("to slurp"), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln ("to sip, slurp"), Latin sorbeō ("to suck up, imbibe, absorb").

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Examples

  • He took a noisy slurp from the short spoon and followed it with a gulp from the cup.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • I did finally get the software to "slurp" my blog.

    Yada, Yada, Blah, Blah, Blurb Holly 2008

  • (Of course, she doesn’t use the proletarian term slurp, but rather dances around it by suggesting that the eater inhale.)

    Show some evidence! « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • (Of course, she doesn’t use the proletarian term slurp, but rather dances around it by suggesting that the eater inhale.)

    2010 January « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • (She still managed to sneak a slurp or two on the sly.

    A Daughter In The Loop 2008

  • SkyGrabber can automatically "slurp" data over satellite.

    PCWorld 2010

  • While drinking the product through a straw, agency director Bob Stanford commented that it made a "slurp" sound coming through the straw.

    The News Tribune Blogs 2010

  • If the size is too small, the system call returns zero, alerting the application. inotify, however, allows user space to "slurp" multiple events at once.

    Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community 2009

  • After installing the Booksmart software (which severely slowed down my old laptop PC when I was using it), you select a blog book and then you point it to your blog to "slurp" your blog entries.

    SplicedFeed 2009

  • After installing the Booksmart software (which severely slowed down my old laptop PC when I was using it), you select a blog book and then you point it to your blog to "slurp" your blog entries.

    SplicedFeed 2009

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