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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To eat or drink noisily.
  2. v. To eat or drink something noisily.
  3. n. A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking.
  4. n. Slang A mouthful of a liquid: took a slurp of grape juice.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To eat or drink (something) noisily
  2. n. A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking
  3. n. A mouthful of liquid

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. eat noisily

Etymologies

  1. 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"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Dutch slurpen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

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

    Asimov's Science Fiction

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

    Yada, Yada, Blah, Blah, Blurb

  • “(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

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

    Newsweek: A Daughter In The Loop

  • “SkyGrabber can automatically "slurp" data over satellite.”

    PCWorld

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “If you're using Blogger or WordPress you can't "slurp" your blog to create a book at”

    Creative Gene

  • “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.”

    Creative Gene

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