subs. (common).—A drink.
1888. The Cornhill Magazine, Oct., 375. An unsophisticated frontiersman who lives on bar-meat and corn-cake washed down with a generous SLOSH of whisky.
Verb. (American).—To go here and there; TO KNOCK ABOUT (q.v.).
1854. Cairo (Ill.) City Times, Nov. To walk backward and forward through the crowd, with a big stick in his hand, and knock down every loose man in the crowd. That’s what I call SLOSHING ABOUT.
1876. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, vi. 67. How could their [witches’] charms work till midnight?—and then it’s Sunday. Devils don’t SLOSH AROUND much of a Sunday, I don’t reckon.
1888. Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. When I was a young man I had to SLOSH AROUND dark, wet nights in rubbers that didn’t fit.
