glop informal,

glop informal,
glop informal,
chiefly N. Amer.
noun sticky and amorphous matter.
↘a soft, shapeless lump of something.
verb (glops, glopping, glopped) transfer (a sloppy or sticky substance) to a container.
Derivatives
gloppy adjective
Origin
1940s: symbolic.

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