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winter's failed snow, a gray betrayal that soaks socks and crushes the dreams of children.
means A soft, watery mixture of partly melted snow and ice, usually gray and gritty, that collects on streets and sidewalks.
from An English word that surfaced in the 1600s, of obscure origin but probably echoing the wet, sloppy sound of the stuff itself — a cousin to dialect words like 'slosh' and 'sludge,' all of them squelching with the same onomatopoeic ooze. It later spread into 'slush fund' (originally sailors' slang for the grease skimmed off cooked meat, sold for extra cash) and the slurped-ice 'slushie.'
- melting point
- exists at exactly zero degrees Celsius, frozen indecision
- slush funds
- named for fat scraped off ships, sold secretly
- brain freeze
- frozen slushies trigger your fastest possible headache
- galactic version
- the early universe was a slush of quark soup
for instance
alaska's spring breakup — annual nenana ice classic, alaskans bet on when the ice tripod falls (since 1917)