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glop /ɡlɒp /informal, chiefly North American noun [mass noun]1Sticky and amorphous matter, typically something unpleasant: a cup of vile green glop...- Finally, he was satisfied with his work and pulled his hand gently out, coated in green glop and various internal juices.
- I think I scraped it all outta my hair, and I got the grotesque green glop off my chin.
- Tommy was looking for glop, or slime, or something disgusting that makes a huge mess, and his mother seemed fine with that.
1.1 [count noun] A soft, shapeless lump of something: a glop of creamy dressing...- He began to coat my head with it, smushing it on in huge glops.
- I pull myself out the seat and push the door open, making a face; the rain turned from huge glops to smaller, heaving it down worse than ever.
- It helped to keep a paper towel under their hand so it wouldn't smudge where their hand rested, and to clean up any glops of pastel that stayed on the drawing.
1.2Worthless writing, music, or other material: commercialized glop, not worth thinking about...- It's melodic, but even on a deep, meditative level, I feel this song is more glop than substance.
- Generally, the worst thing you can say about a movie like this is that it's cloying sentimental glop.
- Who had to read that soporific glop in high school?
verb (glops, glopping, glopped) [with object and adverbial of direction]Transfer (a sloppy or sticky substance) to a container: glop 2 gallons of premixed compound into a bucket...- He quickly pointed to an orange and white mush and the nearest cook spooned it out of the tub and glopped it into one of the tray's depressions.
- I let the stuff glop into the pail I was given to store it in until I came down the ladder to put it in the wheelbarrow.
Derivativesgloppy adjective (gloppier, gloppiest) ...- The texture is very strange - gloppy, gooey, glutinous, and not that easy to manage with chopsticks.
- We make a New England clam chowder that is not that gloppy, thick, potato-infested thing we're all used to.
- It turns gloppy and pasty once it sits in the pot after being taken off the heat.
Origin1940s: symbolic (see gloop). Rhymesatop, bop, chop, clop, cop, crop, dop, drop, Dunlop, estop, flop, fop, hop, intercrop, knop, kop, lop, mop, op, plop, pop, prop, screw-top, shop, slop, sop, stop, strop, swap, tiptop, top, underprop, whop |