Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mixture of high-energy foods, such as nuts and dried fruit, eaten as a snack.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1913 reference to the verb "gorp", meaning "to eat greedily". The occasionally theorised good old raisins and peanuts is probably a backronym. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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?
“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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part I
“They snacked on gorp and water and, after refilling their bottles, moved on.”
“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
“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").”
“Before we could break out the dog biscuits and gorp, there was a sudden release of the tremendous compressed energy that the forward movement of the glacier had exerted on the lake ice.”
“The ice pack had improved Averys pain so she was sitting up and munching on the gorp and ready to help with a plan of attack.”
“I saved all my gorp and I have four granola bars and an apple too, offered Chelsea.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gorp’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Sound Effects You Didn't Know You Needed
Lesser-known onomatopoeias (or things that sound like they ought to be onomatopoeias but aren't), ripe for use in parodies of the Adam West Batman series.
gloomth, spilth, glunch, flub, spramp, sough, gorp, guff, tump, kerrang, bork, flan and 12 more...
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Origin unknown
bamboozle, ballyhoo, banter, bludgeon, chad, cocktail, culvert, curmugeon, dildo, dude, dweeb, dyke and 51 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Really Cool Four-Letter Words
I marvel at the amazing variety of four-letter words in the English language. And that's not even counting really common (to me) words like fuck.
ibis, pelf, sofa, iota, oboe, lava, icon, sped, puha, pulp, puma, kyat and 150 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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the catch-all
inveigle, frontier, invective, quizzical, merit, proficiency, eleemosynary, ham-handed, circumspect, epergne, cobble, industriousness and 201 more...
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Newsweek
All the words that are fit to be made up. Or, you know, to get into a weekly newsmagazine. I've been meaning to make this list for a long time.
brohawk, blasian, ghitalian, mcmansion, mcstrip mall, cornet wales, i could tell you ..., mackerel-snapper, tous les beaux es..., in the tank, longheadedness, kusa and 101 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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Into the mix
A medley of mixtures, mostly ones where the constituents are still distinct. I tagged kinds of stew.
mixture, commixture, admixture, intermixture, intermingling, commingling, mingling, marriage, union, integration, syncretion, permutation and 129 more...
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one grunt each
If nothing else, they're good for saying fast, sequentially.
vim, kern, fork, smock, cur, gorp, moof, shag, butt, fag, vag, frig and 9 more...
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My words
isogloss, yecch, candor, fewterer, gorp, blem, indign, slanty, oppa, rictus, simplex, dactyl and 24 more...
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Upplucked
Yom.
apricot, macadamia, flan, cheesecake, sushi, sprouts, marmalade, chai, smoothie, cupcake, lasagna, spirulina and 40 more...
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mark oppenneer's list of foods
a list of strange food phases I have been through. usually for weeks, sometimes months.
gorp, hummus, rice cakes, milk, popsicles, smoothies, grapefruit juice, extra gum, maple syrup, lemon pepper, shiitake dressing, kimchi and rice and 1 more...
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New Words
I'll list them as I learn them
bumf, impound, pusillanimous, backronym, gorp, verklemft, visual jockey, chupacabra
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gorp.
whichbe 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
chained_bear "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