(mass noun, context-dependent) Plural for water in frozen form
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Plural for any soft, wet and pulpy mass
“The hems of the dress that I wore dragged along the slush of mud on the ground and my sleeves snagged against the branches that had been stripped of its leaves.”
Plural for half-melted snow or ice
“The snowboard whipped up sheaths of white slush, painting elegant curves into the piste.”
Plural for excessive or cloying sentimentality
“It always moves me and makes me feel better about life and is the perfect antidote to all the ersatz sentiment that sprays over us like noxious slush at Christmas time.”
Plural for senseless or absurd language, behavior, or ideas
“I don't remember which scandal rag you write for, but stop talking slush and bugger off.”
Plural for items or material of poor quality or little worth
“Sooner or later, every editor reads slush, if not all of it, then at least the slush that's passed up the line to him by the people who are paid to read nothing but slush.”
Plural for a soft, wet, shapeless mass of material
Plural for a slushie
Plural for a mixture of rain and snow
(mass noun, context-dependent) Plural for water in frozen form
To soil (or be soiled) with mud
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