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Answer for the clue "Real big wet messy stuff to be pumped out ", 10 letters:
bilgewater

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Word definitions for bilgewater in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney , boloney , bosh , drool , humbug , taradiddle , tarradiddle , tommyrot , tosh , twaddle ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) Water which collects in the bilges of a ship. 2 (context slang English) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

Usage examples of bilgewater.

I started her out once, sir--Colonel Bilgewater, you recollect that animal perfectly well-- I started her out about thirty or thirty-five yards ahead of the awfullest storm I ever saw in my life, and it chased us upwards of eighteen miles!

Some person or persons invisible directed him to the male urinal erected by the cleansing committee all over the place for the purpose but after a brief space of time during which silence reigned supreme the sailor, evidently giving it a wide berth, eased himself closer at hand, the noise of his bilgewater some little time subsequently splashing on the ground where it apparently awoke a horse of the cabrank.

They check the bilge pump filters and fish out any debris floating in the bilgewater.