slosh

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But I could still hear his steps distinctly--slosh, slosh, slosh--thud, thud, thud (the grunting had stopped)--closer came the sound, until it was directly behind the dense green branches of a fallen balsam-tree, not twenty feet away from Billy.

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  1. transitive verb To spill or splash (a liquid) copiously or clumsily: slosh paint on the floor.
  2. transitive verb To agitate in a liquid: slosh clothes in a solution of bleach and detergent.
  3. intransitive verb To splash, wade, or flounder in water or another liquid: sloshed through the creek.
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  • And then the avant-jazz-rock mid-tempo seas slosh, lyrical conceits dilute, and her voice pleads for Smith Brothers. —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
  • Note that this is an intentional drain of "slosh", or liquidity, from the banking system. —  The daily irrelevant
  • As meaningless numbers slosh around in our minds, crippling our ability to think, our infinitely corrupt and ruthless ruling class swindles, legislates and no-bid contracts away trillions of our dollars. —  Dissident Voice
  • I want JP Morgan and other American banks owning a stake in the exchanges through which the world's oil money will slosh. —  TigerHawk
  • I get the mo money mo problems thing, but what's with freeze and slosh? —  Indexed
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slosh:   sloshed ·  sloshing
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps blend of slop1 and slush.

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  1. A form intermediate between slash and slush: see slash, slush.
  2. from slosh, n. Cf. slash, slush, v.
 

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