Slurp

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slurp
       v : eat noisily; "He slurped his soup"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "slurp":


     aspirate, beverage, breathe in, bumper, draft, dram, draw in,
     drench, drink, drinking, eating, engorgement, engulfment, gulp,
     gulping, guzzle, imbibition, ingestion, ingurgitation, inhale,
     inspire, lap, lap up, libation, lick, nip, peg, portion, potation,
     pull, quaff, sip, slosh, smack, sniff, sniffle, snort, snuff,
     snuff in, snuffle, soak up, sponge up, suck, suck in, suckle, sup,
     swallow, swallowing, swig, swill, tot, wolf down
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  slurp vt. To read a large data file entirely into {core} before working
     on it. This may be contrasted with the strategy of reading a small piece
     at a time, processing it, and then reading the next piece. "This program
     slurps in a 1K-by-1K matrix and does an FFT." See also {sponge}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  slurp
       
          To read a large data file entirely into {core} before working
          on it.  This may be contrasted with the strategy of reading a
          small piece at a time, processing it, and then reading the
          next piece.  "This program slurps in a 1K-by-1K matrix and
          does an FFT."  See also {sponge}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]