slosh v.2
1. to swallow carelessly, to eat heartily.
True Drunkard’s Delight 227: Perhaps the invitation was to [...] slosh. | ||
World of Paul Slickey Act I: I stood around sloshing back other people’s champagne. | ||
America’s Homosexual Underground 86: A thousand milling homosexuals, sloshing liquor as fast as they can get it down. | ||
New Girls (1982) 133: The rest of the school sloshed through the Wheatena and the marmalade and the toast. | ||
Kowloon Tong 57: She sloshed a mouthful of Milo. | ||
Donnybrook [ebook] [S]loshing booze and laying down wagers. |
2. to pour out liquid in an abrupt manner.
Chicago Trib. 3 Sept. 2/5: The Ring-paid scribblers and papers will slosh on the usual amount of whitewash . | ||
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1955) 191: By the time Harlow and Easton had ‘sloshed’ a lot more whitewash on to them they were mere formless unsightly lumps of plaster. | ||
the Devil rides outside 78: [H]e runs with black skirts flying, sloshing water from the pail he carries. | ||
77 Dream Songs 55: I mentioned fiendish things, he waved them away / and sloshed out a martini. | ||
L.A. Times 24 Feb. 39/1: The French Embassy got the nod about their friends sloshing champagne around on Friday night. | ||
George’s Marvellous Medicine 81: I sloshed in a bit of anti-freeze. |
In compounds
a (quick) wash.
Nights in Town 206: He goes into the scullery, strips, and has what he calls a ‘slosh down’. |
In phrases
(US) to go out drinking.
Americanisms 635: To slosh around means to go about, frequenting grogshops, in a half-muddled state. |