1951 Philadelphia Inquirer 17 Aug. 21/8 A chocolate milkshake and ice cream or some other goopy dessert.

1969 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 3 Apr. e1/1 Can those clear, goopy hair preparations give a person dandruff?

1992 N. Stephenson Snow Crash v. 42 The sauce on the spaghetti is sticky, goopy stuff.

2013 E. Huang Fresh off Boat i. 16 One time my mom bought us Nickelodeon Gack... Gack was this nasty, goopy, dense, sticky green slime that had a consistency like warm Laffy Taffy.

1974 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. (Book Review section) 25/1 A goopy morality lesson called ‘The Giving Tree’ that has become a sort of second-string ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’.

1983 Film Comment Jan. 12/3 Spielberg retains the ability to visualize the world as a child does—and that's not meant as a goopy platitude, but as a precise observation.

2006 A. Valdes-Rodriguez Make him look Good (2007) 291 Her shows are goopy and gross sometimes, but overall my mother is pretty good at giving women advice, which is why she's still on the air.