slurp

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /slɝp/

Verb

slurp (slurps, present participle slurping; past and past participle slurped)

1. (transitive) To eat or drink noisily.

   They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.

   • 2015 Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)

     As the crowd cackles and caws, a white-backed vulture snakes its head deep into the wildebeest’s eye socket and hurriedly slurps, with grooved tongue, whatever it can before being ripped from its place at the table.

2. (intransitive) To make a loud sucking noise.

   The mud slurped under our shoes.

Translations

• German: schlürfen
• Italian: tracannare
• Portuguese: sorver
• Russian: сёрбать
• Spanish: sorber

Noun

slurp (plural slurps)

1. A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking
2. A mouthful of liquid

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