glop n.
1. a liquid or viscous substance or mixture.
![]() | N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Nov. 12/3: The somewhat pleasanter words, mostly referring to food, such as ‘glop’, meaning any food mixture. | |
![]() | Amer. Thes. Sl. (2nd edn). | |
![]() | Cutter and Bone (2001) 109: And now in her glop-rimmed eyes the pain was raw, exposed. | |
![]() | Meeting the British in Penguin Bk Contemp. Irish Poetry 386: [...] It’s a bar of soap / [...] / that I work each morning into a lather, / with my father’s wobbling-brush, / then reconcile to its pool of glop / on my mother’s wash-stand’s marble top. | ‘The Soap-Pig’ in|
![]() | Florida Roadkill 152: A glop of slaw hit Veale in the ear. |
2. food, usu. unappetizing .
![]() | Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: glop . . . unappetizing food. | |
![]() | Kowloon Tong 88: The fish heads, the pig’s feet, the spongy tripe, the tendons, fifteen courses of this glop were not unusual. | |
![]() | Whiplash River [ebook] The food wasn’t bad. It was the glop made of tomatoes, onions, rice, and chickpeas. |
3. (US) silly nonsense.
![]() | cited in DAS. | |
![]() | A Cold Wind in August (1963) 198: You can hardly expect him to be talking a lot of glop into the phone. | |
![]() | Dict. Contemp. and Colloq. Usage. |
4. (US) used of an individual, sluggish, lacking spirit.
![]() | Catholic Transcript 2 Sept. 19/2: Miss Trahey wasn’t happy with how she herself came across. ‘The girl who plays me on the screen (June Harding) is too nebbishy. She’s a glop’. |