slush
1 of 2noun
ˈsləsh 
plural slushes
1
a
: partly melted or watery snow
b
: loose ice crystals formed during the early stages of freezing of salt water
c
: slushy
Cut watermelon into small chunks and freeze, then blend frozen fruit and buttermilk to make a cooling fruit slush. 
Sunset Magazine
Sunset Magazine2
: soft mud : mire
3
: refuse grease and fat from cooking especially on shipboard
4
: paper pulp in water suspension
5
: trashy and usually cheaply sentimental material
6
: unsolicited writings submitted (as to a magazine) for publication
slush
2 of 2verb
slushed; slushing; slushes
transitive verb
: to wet or splash with slush
intransitive verb
1
: to make one's way through slush
2
: to make a splashing sound
Synonyms
Noun
- applesauce [slang]
- balderdash
- baloney
- boloney
- beans
- bilge
- blah
- blah-blah
- blarney
- blather
- blatherskite
- blither
- bosh
- bull [slang]
- bunk
- bunkum
- buncombe
- claptrap
- codswallop [British]
- crapola [slang]
- crock
- drivel
- drool
- fiddle
- fiddle-faddle
- fiddlesticks
- flannel [British]
- flapdoodle
- folderol
- falderal
- folly
- foolishness
- fudge
- garbage
- guff
- hogwash
- hokeypokey
- hokum
- hoodoo
- hooey
- horsefeathers [slang]
- humbug
- humbuggery
- jazz
- malarkey
- malarky
- moonshine
- muck
- nerts [slang]
- nonsense
- nuts
- piffle
- poppycock
- punk
- rot
- rubbish
- senselessness
- silliness
- stupidity
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- tommyrot
- tosh
- trash
- trumpery
- twaddle
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
Noun a sidewalk covered with slush The movie is just a lot of romantic slush.
Recent Examples on the Web Ron Charles, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022 Oregon, Ohio Started in 1991 with a half-acre of pumpkins, this family farm now features several mazes, a snack shop featuring hot donuts and cold cider slush, and a huge assortment of pumpkins. Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 19 Aug. 2022 The frozen treat combines rich vanilla ice cream with Sour Patch Kids watermelon flavor slush, along with pieces of the brand's signature chewy candy. Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2022 How about a slush that's sprinkled with edible bugs and a scorpion? Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2022 Lake ice loaded with slush had Susitna 100 organizers scrambling to come up with a safe course. Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2022 The normally translucent turquoise waters around Pinel Island turned into a prickly yellowish-brown slush. Fox News, 4 Aug. 2022 The normally translucent waters around Pinel Island turned into a prickly brown slush. Dánica Coto, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022 The normally translucent waters around Pinel Island turned into a prickly brown slush. DÁnica Coto, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022 Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022 Plow driver fired: A snowplow driver has been fired after his plow threw snow and slush onto the opposite side of the Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky, damaging 55 vehicles, Olivia Mitchell reports. cleveland, 9 Feb. 2022 Shoes made with Gore-Tex, eVent or other proprietary waterproof liners do a good job of keeping rain, snow and slush away from your feet and helping your toes stay relatively warm and dry. Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 1 July 2019 Beneath the dossier’s journey from media obsession to slush pile lies a broader and more troubling story. New York Times, 15 May 2021 Kevin Nye attended the Juneau Trump rally, where vehicles, some decked with U.S. flags or banners supporting Trump, lined up Sunday to parade through town as the streets turned to slush from the snow and rain. Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2020 When the bathrooms began flooding, the manager decided the night was canceled, and fans begrudgingly slushed their way out. Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020 Normally at this time of year lake effect is cut dramatically because of ice cover on the Great Lakes and open water slushing up. Mark Torregrossa | Mtorregr@mlive.com, cleveland, 12 Feb. 2020 Extreme weather can overpower the freezing point of the washer fluid, turning it to slush on your windshield. Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2018 See More
Noun
Indeed, just detailing such crimes would risk dissolving the victims in slush pools of suffering. Ron Charles, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022 Oregon, Ohio Started in 1991 with a half-acre of pumpkins, this family farm now features several mazes, a snack shop featuring hot donuts and cold cider slush, and a huge assortment of pumpkins. Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 19 Aug. 2022 The frozen treat combines rich vanilla ice cream with Sour Patch Kids watermelon flavor slush, along with pieces of the brand's signature chewy candy. Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2022 How about a slush that's sprinkled with edible bugs and a scorpion? Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2022 Lake ice loaded with slush had Susitna 100 organizers scrambling to come up with a safe course. Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2022 The normally translucent turquoise waters around Pinel Island turned into a prickly yellowish-brown slush. Fox News, 4 Aug. 2022 The normally translucent waters around Pinel Island turned into a prickly brown slush. Dánica Coto, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022 The normally translucent waters around Pinel Island turned into a prickly brown slush. DÁnica Coto, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022 Verb
So one misstep can turn a team’s championship dreams to slush. Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022 Plow driver fired: A snowplow driver has been fired after his plow threw snow and slush onto the opposite side of the Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky, damaging 55 vehicles, Olivia Mitchell reports. cleveland, 9 Feb. 2022 Shoes made with Gore-Tex, eVent or other proprietary waterproof liners do a good job of keeping rain, snow and slush away from your feet and helping your toes stay relatively warm and dry. Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 1 July 2019 Beneath the dossier’s journey from media obsession to slush pile lies a broader and more troubling story. New York Times, 15 May 2021 Kevin Nye attended the Juneau Trump rally, where vehicles, some decked with U.S. flags or banners supporting Trump, lined up Sunday to parade through town as the streets turned to slush from the snow and rain. Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2020 When the bathrooms began flooding, the manager decided the night was canceled, and fans begrudgingly slushed their way out. Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020 Normally at this time of year lake effect is cut dramatically because of ice cover on the Great Lakes and open water slushing up. Mark Torregrossa | Mtorregr@mlive.com, cleveland, 12 Feb. 2020 Extreme weather can overpower the freezing point of the washer fluid, turning it to slush on your windshield. Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2018 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian slusk slush
First Known Use
Noun
circa 1642, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1807, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
Phrases Containing slush
Kids Definition
slush
noun
ˈsləsh
: partly melted snow
slush 1 of 2
noun
1
as in garbage
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense how can you stand to read that slush in the tabloids? Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- garbage
- nuts
- nonsense
- muck
- rubbish
- drool
- blah
- stupidity
- silliness
- trash
- jazz
- beans
- fudge
- rot
- bilge
- bunk
- baloney
- foolishness
- craziness
- crock
- punk
- balderdash
- twaddle
- applesauce
- flapdoodle
- insanity
- madness
- guff
- piffle
- claptrap
- humbuggery
- tosh
- blatherskite
- drivel
- blither
- bull
- trumpery
- hogwash
- folderol
- moonshine
- malarkey
- bunkum
- hokum
- boloney
- fiddlesticks
- blather
- poppycock
- falderal
- flannel
- bosh
- fiddle
- horsefeathers
- crapola
- hooey
- tommyrot
- absurdity
- codswallop
- blarney
- humbug
- blah-blah
- nerts
- malarky
- fiddle-faddle
- folly
- buncombe
- tarradiddle
- taradiddle
- gas
- hokeypokey
- hoodoo
- greek
- senselessness
- idiocy
- absurdness
- foolery
- inanity
- imbecility
- tomfoolery
- inaneness
- lunacy
- monkey business
- rigmarole
- witlessness
- hot air
- kookiness
- asininity
- fatuity
- monkeyshine(s)
- shenanigan(s)
- rigamarole
- hoity-toity
- hocus-pocus
- double-talk
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- horse sense
- rationality
- reasonableness
- sensibleness
- reasonability
- judgment
- judgement
- sense
- wisdom
- levelheadedness
- common sense
- discernment
2
as in mud
soft wet earth he paused in front of the doorway to wipe the slush off of his boots before going inside Synonyms & Similar Words
- mud
- sludge
- muck
- gravel
- sand
- slime
- mire
- dirt
- ooze
- slop
- silt
- guck
- gook
- gumbo
- clay
- loam
- soil
- humus
3
as in sludge
something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental a musical that has been reviled as pure slush by the New York critics Synonyms & Similar Words
- sludge
- corn
- goo
- mush
- rubbish
- schmaltz
- sorghum
- soap opera
- schmalz
- tripe
- claptrap
- drivel
4
as in cheese
that which is of low quality or worth discovered that slush is what publishers want, so that's exactly what she'll write didn't want to put in the effort to produce anything better than slush Synonyms & Similar Words
- cheese
- junk
- rubbish
- muck
- trash
- lemon
- tripe
- dreck
- camp
- drek
- slop
- sleaze
- bomb
- mess
- crapola
- nonsense
- kitsch
- claptrap
- stinker
- turkey
- clinker
- humbug
- clunker
- muddle
- dud
- shambles
slush
2 of 2verb
as in to water
Synonyms & Similar Words
- water
- slop
- spray
- squirt
- sprinkle
- steep
- bathe
- wash
- drown
- douse
- drench
- splatter
- souse
- impregnate
- saturate
- spatter
- sop
- soak
- bespatter
- splash
- dowse
- plash
- dash