Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To eat or drink noisily.
- intransitive v. To eat or drink something noisily.
- n. A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking.
- n. Slang A mouthful of a liquid: took a slurp of grape juice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To eat or drink (something) noisily
- n. A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking
- n. A mouthful of liquid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. eat noisily
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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He took a noisy slurp from the short spoon and followed it with a gulp from the cup.
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I did finally get the software to "slurp" my blog.
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(Of course, she doesn’t use the proletarian term slurp, but rather dances around it by suggesting that the eater inhale.)
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(She still managed to sneak a slurp or two on the sly.
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SkyGrabber can automatically "slurp" data over satellite.
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While drinking the product through a straw, agency director Bob Stanford commented that it made a "slurp" sound coming through the straw.
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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.
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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.
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If you're using Blogger or WordPress you can't "slurp" your blog to create a book at
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I guess Blurb. com has requested the new information from them to make the "slurp" process work again but they aren't playing nice and won't share.
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