WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

slurp
    v 1: eat noisily; "He slurped his soup"

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

slurp

   To read a large data file entirely into core before working
   on it.  This may be contrasted with the strategy of reading a
   small piece at a time, processing it, and then reading the
   next piece.  "This program slurps in a 1K-by-1K matrix and
   does an FFT."  See also sponge.

   [Jargon File]


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

slurp
 vt.

    To read a large data file entirely into core before working on it. This
    may be contrasted with the strategy of reading a small piece at a time,
    processing it, and then reading the next piece. “This program slurps in a
    1K-by-1K matrix and does an FFT.” See also sponge.