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Definition of 'slurp'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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

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

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

4. slurp
any lapping or splashing sound.

Etymology: (1640–50; < D slurpen (v.))

Definition of 'slurp'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) slurp
eat noisily
"He slurped his soup"

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Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) slurp
to suck up liquid noisily
He slurped his tea.

Definitions of 'slurp'

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.

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