▪ I. glop, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
(glɒp)
[? Shortening of gloppen v.]
1. intr. To stare, to gaze in alarm or wonder.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 849 Þe god man glyfte with þat glam & gloped for noyse. a 1743 Relph Misc. Poems (1747) 4 The lads began to glop. 1875 in Whitby Gloss. 1878 Cumbld. Gloss., Glop, to stare, look wildly. |
2. trans. To startle, cause to stare.
| 1807 Stagg Poems (1808) 37 The people glop'd wi' deep surprise, Away their wark-gear threw. |
Hence † glop n.1, a start, surprise. Obs. rare—1.
| c 1460 Towneley Myst. xvi. 264 O my hart is rysand now in a glope. [Cf. ‘Glopping, a palpitation’ (Leicester Gloss.).] |
▪ II. † glop, v.2 Obs. rare—1.
[Echoic; cf. globbe, gloff, gloup, gulp; Sw. (dial.) glåpa to gulp down.]
trans. To swallow greedily. Also ˈglopping vbl. n.
| 1362 Ygloppid [see gloup v.]. c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 92 Glotony is her God · wiþ gloppynge [v.rr. goppyng, golping] of drynk. |
▪ III. glop, n.1
see glop v.1
▪ IV. glop, n.2 U.S. slang.
(glɒp)
[Cf. glop v.2]
A liquid or viscous substance or mixture; spec. inferior or unappetising food.
| 1945 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Nov. 12/3 The somewhat pleasanter words, mostly referring to food, such as ‘glop’, meaning any food mixture. 1952 Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (ed. 2) §91/2 Inferior food..glob [index has ‘glop’] . 1962 J. Potts Evil Wish vi. 88 A cheap, soiled cosmetic case crammed with little bottles of glop. 1965 New Yorker 15 May 21 (Advt.), This glop can choke an Army whirlybird... The blobs on the left are drops of helicopter fuel—after it has been contaminated by dust, grit and dirt. |