Thesaurus results for GLOP

glop

noun

ˈgläp

Definition of glop

as in goo

a thick semiliquid substance (as food) that is unattractive the restaurant served glop that brought back unpleasant memories of my high school cafeteria

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Recent Examples of glop Human inventiveness turned that glop into an energy resource that has vastly enriched the world. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 16 June 2026 Trump’s taste is the stuff of legend, a sort of grotesque of the conventional, with his gold baroque glop and fake tans and bright-red neckties—everything gesturing toward high-end elegance but always wrong somehow, always slightly too much. — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch. — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025 Plaster bandages, the type used in bone-setting casts, go over the glop. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025 Suddenly the glops and drips look sonic, like musical bursts and pings. — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025 His breakthrough short movie-sculpture-painting, Men Getting Sick (1960), involved casting his own head in plaster, and applying more of the glop to the screen. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019

Recent Examples of Synonyms for glop

goo

Noun

Working in his parents’ attic in London, Perkin began experimenting with aniline, a clear oil derived from coal tar—the leftover thick black goo from Victorian gas lighting.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2026
Birds visiting the feeder can get the goo on their wings, hampering their ability to fly and possibly leading to their untimely deaths.

— Joan Morris, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026