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Definition of "slosh" []

  • To spill or splash (a liquid) copiously or clumsily: slosh paint on the floor. (verb-transitive)
  • To agitate in a liquid: slosh clothes in a solution of bleach and detergent. (verb-transitive)
  • To splash, wade, or flounder in water or another liquid: sloshed through the creek. (verb-intransitive)
  • Slush. (noun)
  • The sound of splashing liquid. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "slosh" in a sentence
  • "And I have now seen -- I have seen some estimates from the Hurricane Center from what is called the slosh model that I was very familiar when I worked for the Weather Service that now some of these tides can be 31 feet tall today."
  • ""Ay, ay, sir!" came the response, faintly heard above the howl of the wind, the thunder of the surf on the rocks to leeward, the heavy "slosh" of a sea in over the bows, and the hair-raising slatting of the canvas overhead."
  • "Note that this is an intentional drain of "slosh", or liquidity, from the banking system."