gorp
A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.
Noun
- A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.
- Before you take off, pack food for picnics and snacks. Experienced biking adventurers usually fill a plastic bag with a quick-energy concoction called "gorp" (good-old-raisins-and-peanuts). Create your own gorp...
- Nuts are cheap. Per pound: peanuts, $1.50, pistachios, $1.80, hazelnuts, 75¢. Mix them with dried fruit and you have a scrumptious gorp. - 1981, John Rakowski, Adventure Cycling in Europe […] , Rodale Press, →ISBN, page...
- “They were living in their pajamas so as not to have too much laundry. They were eating gorp for their suppers.” “I'm not even going to ask what gorp is,” Sarah said, “It's a mixture of wheat germ and nuts and dried—” -...
Origin
The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1913 reference to the verb gorp (“to eat greedily”). The occasionally theorized "good old raisins and peanuts" and "granola, oats, raisins, peanuts" are probably backronyms.