Definitions for slurpslɜrp

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

slurpslɜrp(v.t.)

  1. to ingest (food or drink) with loud sucking noises.

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  2. (v.i.)to make loud sucking noises while eating or drinking.

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  3. (n.)an intake of food or drink with a noisy sucking sound.

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  4. any lapping or splashing sound.

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Origin of slurp:

1640–50; < D slurpen (v.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. slurp(verb)

    eat noisily

    "He slurped his soup"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. slurp(verb)ɜrp

    to suck up liquid noisily

    He slurped his tea.

Wiktionary

  1. slurp(Noun)

    A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking

  2. slurp(Noun)

    A mouthful of liquid

  3. slurp(Verb)

    To eat or drink (something) noisily

  4. Origin: From slurpen, slorpen, from *, from slarpanan, from srebʰ-. Cognate with slurvje, schlürfen, slurpa, sürfeln, sürpfeln, sorbeo.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. slurp

    To read a large data file entirely into core before working on it. This may be contrasted with the strategy of reading a small piece at a time, processing it, and then reading the next piece. “This program slurps in a 1K-by-1K matrix and does an FFT.” See also sponge.


Translations for slurp

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

proboscis(noun)

a nose, or mouth-part in certain animals, insects etc.

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