Meaning

7 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.

    As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.

    Schneematsch

    снежура́snežurá, шуга́šugá, сля́котьsljákotʹ

    сльотаslʹota

    partially melted snow

  2. (uncountable, usually)Liquid mud or mire.

    Matsch

    сля́котьsljákotʹ, жи́жаžíža

  3. (uncountable, usually)Flavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).

    Slush, Slusheis, Slush Eis

    слашslaš

  4. (uncountable, usually)A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.

  5. (uncountable, usually)The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.

  6. (uncountable, usually)A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.

  7. (uncountable, usually)Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The governor took the money out of a slush fund.

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  2. Cycling through slush on a racer isn't wise, but this year there's no alternative.

    deEs ist zwar nicht klug, mit dem Rennrad im Schneematsch zu fahren, aber heuer bleibt einem nichts anderes übrig.

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  3. There was slush on the road where the car, which had summer tires, was being driven.

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  4. It's not clever, cycling through slush on a racing bike, but there's nothing else for it this year.

    deEs ist zwar nicht klug, mit dem Rennrad im Schneematsch zu fahren, aber heuer bleibt einem nichts anderes übrig.

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  5. Perhaps the surface of Jupiter is like ambiguous slush under dense poisonous gases.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
half-melted snow:
Русский
By meaning 2
half-melted snow:
flavored shaved ice served as a drink:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
half-melted snow:
liquid mud or mire:
flavored shaved ice served as a drink:

Origin

May be a variant of sludge or imitative like slosh. Perhaps a confluence of both influence

May be a variant of sludge or imitative like slosh. Perhaps a confluence of both influences.

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Forms

plural: slushes
Singularslush

uncountable

Synonyms

6 synonyms
flavored shaved ice served as a drink:slushyslushieslurpeeslush puppySlush Puppie

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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