Definition of "syrup"

syrup

/ˈsɪɹ.əp/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural syrups
1. Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring.
  Quotations
  With jellies soother than the creamy curd, / And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; [...]
  1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, stanza XXX, page 98
2. (by extension) Any viscous liquid.
3. (figurative) Anything overly sweet or sentimental.
  Quotations
  Eventually, he or his staunch public tired of his easy-listening syrup, so Price recorded gospel for the Myrrh label before semi-retiring to his Golden Cross Ranch in Texas.
  1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 266
4. (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig.
verb
third-person singular simple present syrups, present participle syruping, simple past and past participle syruped
1. (transitive) To convert or process into syrup.
2. (transitive) To add syrup to.
3. (transitive) To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.