slushy

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When the snow is falling hard or city streets are slushy, a warm, waterproof boot that will keep you dry is the only way to go.

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  1. Consisting of soft mud, or of snow and water; resembling slush. I gain the cove with pushing prow And quench its speed in the slushy sand. Browning, Meeting at Night.
  2. Same as slusher.

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  • The pronunciation was less slushy, but still not perfect. —  Vale of the Vole
  • Out here on the slippery, snowy-slushy eastern slopes of the Central Oregon Cascades, it's still 2 1 / 2 hours until we can call it quits on one of the more brutal years in my half-century of memory. —  The Grumpy Forester
  • Lake Michigan's slushy, icy water was about 32 degrees. —  WBAY Action 2 News
  • Main thoroughfares and covered with a slick layer of slushy, slippery dirty snow. —  WNYMedia
  • Piles of slushy-frozenness lined the lane and I began to wonder why I even bothered with these sluggish studded tires that grip the pavement and sound like Velcro being ripped apart as they roll. —  Dirt Rag Online!
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