slush

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.

   “As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.”

2. (uncountable, usually)Liquid mud or mire.
3. (uncountable, usually)Flavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).
4. (uncountable, usually)A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
5. (uncountable, usually)The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
6. (uncountable, usually)A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
7. (uncountable, usually)Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.

verb

1. To smear with slushy liquid or grease.

   “The ungrateful “they” are Brooklynites who’ve come to see Harding-Mamary creations as a chain, where you can get it venti in a ramekin with crème fraîche or slushed with guava and salt on the rim.”

2. To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.

   “The water was soon slushing merrily over the deck, while the smoke pouring from the cabin stove carried a promise of good things to come.”

   “Sitting inside the Starbucks on Broadway near Roscoe, two art students had tired of sketching people slushing through the two-day-old snow.”

   “A belated freshman, his oilskin slicker rasping loudly, slushed along the soft path.”

   “The deck below me was littered with chests, sea boots, and odds and ends of clothing, while farther aft considerable water had found entrance through the scuttle hole, and was slushing back and forth as the bark rolled.”

   “They climbed over fallen and moss-grown logs; they slushed through shallow water; they crawled on their hands and knees under embankments and rocks, and at last, at Handsome's order, they stepped into a boat of some kind which the latter pushed away from the bank with a pole.”

3. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.