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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slurp
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He bent his face over the steaming bowl and slurped loudly.
▪ Kids slurped strawberry shakes and ate hamburgers.
▪ The old man started to slurp his beer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Death crunched his cookies and slurped his tea.
▪ He stretched and got up, then trotted over to his water dish and slurped up a great guzzling mouthful.
▪ His first job is to get some younger customers slurping more soya milk and eating chicken curry.
▪ I can hear her slurping up something.
▪ I stopped yelling and started happily slurping my way through an icecream.
▪ One of the two older men slurped his soup.
▪ Phil slurped his with one gulp.
▪ She was making hungry, slurping, groaning sounds.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slurp

1640s, from Dutch slurpen, perhaps of imitative origin (compare German schlürfen). Related: Slurped; slurping. The noun is first recorded 1949, from the verb.

Wiktionary
slurp

n. 1 A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking 2 A mouthful of liquid vb. 1 (cx transitive English) To eat or drink noisily. 2 (cx intransitive English) To make a loud sucking noise.

WordNet
slurp

v. eat noisily; "He slurped his soup"

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "slurp".

The prawns turned pink as she stirred them into the spice mixture, and she dumped in cold, cooked basmati rice and a generous slurp of ketjap--Indonesian soy sauce.

Then they heard his slurping, which emphasized a difficulty--even in diners along the road, his beastlike inattention to custom would betray him and them.

With my body still suffering from hypothermia, I focus on slurping the hot soup, trying to warm my inners while fighting occasional urges to cry.

He was hardly an epicurean, but he surely would have noticed the first time he slurped up a spoonful of Malathion or Sevin.

With a noisy slurp the mastodont sucked up a trunkful of water, draining the bag.

This was apparently something in the way of a ruffianly toast, for the six scalawags raised their teacups in unison, pinkies politely extended like so many small logs, and slurped noisily.

They are shedding their dead matter in suppurating clots that eddy free and drift up like oil, expanding as the crushing pressure lessens, enveloping and suffocating fish and weed, until what breaks the waves with a mucal slurp is a noisome coagulate of infection and smothered sea-life.

Fisher screwed a tube of protein fiber onto the suckhole of his faceplate and slurped it.

Tamra slurped even more than some of the junior guards in the Finest, hardly ladylike, but Tamra had never wanted to be a lady anyway.

One second she was slurping at the succulent cock-head and the next, the bloated column was surging down her throat, forcing apart her oesophageal tract until she thought her throat would burst.

Did they feign ignorance while slurping champagne, stuffing themselves with caviar and the finest food money could buy, ogling the spicy performers that there would be no Can-Can without music written by Offenbach, a Jew?

Mechanically, Dorrin slurps the last of the soup and chews the remaining bread crust, although his stomach is more than full.

Then the passage jerked up again, so that the water only slurped at his boots.

He slurped a long piece of spaghetti into his mouth, the sauce splashing off it around his mouth.

The creature began to quiver in excitement and gave forth a slurping noise.