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  • verb Present participle of slurp.
  • noun A sound or motion that slurps.

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Examples

  • Despite someone standing over me right now waving a fan just at the edge of my vision with his incessant fap-fap-fap and occassional brushing of the fan against his suit, and another guy slurping from a smelly cardboard pack of one-cup sake, and a third with ciggie breath, I can cope better by facing it rather than trying to hide behind a wall of sound.

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  • It is the number, not the length of time slurping, that is key here.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

  • When the psychologists deprived lab rats of salt, the rodents began avoiding activities that they normally loved, such as slurping up a sugary fluid.

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  • The spy tactics include copying information contained in laptop computers at airport checkpoints or hotel rooms, wirelessly inserting spyware on BlackBerry devices, and a new technique dubbed "slurping" that uses Bluetooth technology to steal data from electronic devices.

    U.S. Fears Threat of Cyberspying at Olympics 2008

  • Jessica--it appears that blurb.com has shut down "slurping" of blogger indefinitely.

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  • When James 'superiors saw James charging his iPod, they accused him of "slurping," or using an iPod to download tens of thousands of company files per hour.

    Releases feed from RealWire 2009

  • Table manners are also non-existent, and the more riotous noises such as slurping, etc. you can produce while eating, the better.

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  • If (nay, WHEN) Detroit does well, I am bracing myself for the same kind of slurping that Grace did in the last game.

    Bless You Boys 2009

  • When James 'superiors saw James charging his iPod, they accused him of "slurping," or using an iPod to download tens of thousands of company files per hour.

    Releases feed from RealWire 2009

  • Perhaps "slurping" would be a better verb ...), and just generally enjoying myself.

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  • A particular nuisance in my office. My next-door officemate is the loudest slurper I have ever encountered. It's fascinating, in a highly annoying way.

    March 27, 2008