gorp

[gawrp] /gɔrp/
noun, Informal.
1.
a mixture of nuts, raisins, dried fruits, seeds, or the like eaten as a high-energy snack, as by hikers and climbers.
Origin
1955-60; perhaps alteration of glop
Slang definitions & phrases for gorp

gorp 1

verb

To eat greedily; gobble, gorm

[1940s+; probably fr British gawp up, ''to devour'']


gorp 2

noun

A food mixture of dried fruit, nuts, and seeds, consumed esp by hikers, alpinists, etc

[1980s+; said to be fr good old raisins and peanuts and probably related to gorp1]


gorp in Technology


/gorp/ (CMU, perhaps from the canonical hiker's food, Good Old Raisins and Peanuts) Another metasyntactic variable, like foo and bar.