Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To swallow hastily or carelessly.

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Examples

  • There are some very good links in there today, and I'm not telling you which ones are great, you'll have to slup through the crapola ones to get to the great ones, I suppose.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Wonder what would have happened if she wasn't wearing rubber boots, but instead her perky, pearl-pink toes curled up in the slup-gushy, cold, black mud?

    Baby's Got Back Roger Sutton 2006

  • He struck the water with a sharp, smooth "slup!" and raced ashore, seizing his suit as he ran toward the turbo-alternator.

    Spacehounds of IPC 1927

  • Who could mistake the meaning of such detached phrases and epithets as these -- 'Daring fellow,' 'Scotch dog,' 'British slup,' and 'Steel fix him.'

    An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

  • You see, when the watter came on him so strong that his hoose began to slup away, he took two of his oxen an 'he tied them together wi' ropes, an 'put planks on their backs, which he also tied; ay! an' so he made a sort of livin 'stage, on which he sat his wife and four children; two of them wass poys and the other two wass girls, whatever.

    The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood 1859

  • Hur glättigt sam han i sin slup 9 med henne över mörkblå djup!

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • Imagine, your a slup of a radio host and the President of the United States can't stop referring to you arguing with you, about you!!!!

    Latest Articles 2009

  • In a move which makes it difficult to determine if the government is emulating the Europeans or Warren Buffett (we like the Buffett angle much better) the government (we read this as "The Treasury") is poised to slup up preferred shares in "nine top financial institutions."

    Dealbreaker 2009

  • In a move which makes it difficult to determine if the government is emulating the Europeans or Warren Buffett (we like the Buffett angle much better) the government (we read this as "The Treasury") is poised to slup up preferred shares in "nine top financial institutions."

    Dealbreaker 2009

  • In a move which makes it difficult to determine if the government is emulating the Europeans or Warren Buffett (we like the Buffett angle much better) the government (we read this as "The Treasury") is poised to slup up preferred shares in "nine top financial institutions."

    Dealbreaker 2009

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