schloop

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃluːp/

Noun

schloop (plural schloops)

1. (informal) A usually wet sucking or slurping sound.
   • 2015, Gail Picco, What the Enemy Thinks:

     Today the water made a schloop sound as it lapped up the beach, sounding a very distant cousin to the raging surf on a stormy day.

Verb

schloop (third-person singular simple present schloops, present participle schlooping, simple past and past participle schlooped)

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To move, or cause to move, in a wet, gooey manner.
   • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories:

     […] and before he thought what he was doing he schlooped up a schloop of mud from the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, and slapped it on his head, where it made a cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears.

2. (intransitive, informal) To make a usually wet sucking or slurping sound.

Derived terms

• schloopy