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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A shop where slops, or ready-made clothes, are sold. See slopseller.

Wiktionary

  1. n. dated A shop where slops, or ready-made clothes, are sold.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a store that sells cheap ready-made clothing

Etymologies

  1. slop +‎ shop (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “And then that smug-faced, smooth-tongued, dirty-looking chaplain, with his second-hand shirt collars and slopshop morality -- was it whiskey or brandy that his breath smelt oftenest of?”

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

  • “He kept a stinking slopshop in Bishopsgate Street, and a still more stinking schism-shop in”

    The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)

  • “So that as soon as my comrade was decently array'd at the first slopshop we came to, 'twas high time to seek an inn.”

    The Splendid Spur

  • “To the right of the alley the barber had affixed his signboard, close above the base of his pole; to the left a flanking slopshop dangled a row of cast-off suits, while immediately overhead was nailed a board painted over with ornate flourishes and the legend --”

    Poison Island

  • “Well, when he come out I stood back out of sight, and then tracked him to a second-hand slopshop and see him buy a red flannel shirt and some old ragged clothes -- just the ones he's got on now, as you've described.”

    Tom Sawyer, Detective

  • “He went straight to a slopshop and bought as neat and reasonably well-fitting a suit of clothes as an Englishman could be persuaded to wear.”

    The American Claimant

  • “On the 26 Thermidor, An III., two wretches, one a newspaper-vendor and the other a slopshop-keeper, were condemned to death and executed for the murder of the Abbé Paquot and of the curé of Rilly.”

    France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889

  • “At the first slopshop I encountered in the suburbs of the town, I got a carpet-bag and a clerical-looking suit.”

    A Rogue's Life

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