Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Weak and sloppy drink; thin, watery food.
  • noun A blunder.
  • Slipshod; slovenly.
  • To slap repeatedly; go slipping and slapping.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.

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Examples

  • A delay has resulted from a dropped jar of sweet gherkins, and an efficient seventy-one-year-old lanky shop boy with a mop striding purposefully—not hurriedly—toward the spill, worried that the tremulous woman who dropped the jar might tumble into the slipslop of glass and vinegar.

    Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

  • It was but too true: until now, she, Laura, had been satisfied to know things in a slipslop, razzle-dazzle way, to know them anyhow, as it best suited herself.

    The Getting of Wisdom 2003

  • Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slipslop conversation of a pack of women. '

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

  • From the kitchen came the slipslop of Tina's slovenly feet.

    Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

  • 'To find other people's unposted letters in an old pocket; to be seen looking at oneself in a street-mirror, or overhead talking of the Ideal to a duchess; to refuse Nuns who come to the door to ask for subscriptions, or to be lent by a beautiful new acquaintance a book she has written full of mystical slipslop, or dreadful musings in an old-world garden --'

    More Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907

  • At night I pointed this out to Lord Granville, and told him that the despatch was slipslop, and on the next day, October 24th, I managed to get a good many changes made -- one by telegraph, and the others by an amending despatch. '

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slipslop conversation of a pack of women. '

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

  • Was he misunderstanding her on purpose, or giving a lesson on slipslop at such a provoking moment?

    Beechcroft at Rockstone Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • His "beau language" is mere slipslop; he mistakes the meaning of his original a thousand times; and by way, no doubt, of "accommodating it to the taste of the age," he patches it with paltry scraps from the common repertory of the "fast school" of his day.

    The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

  • To take the adjective from the Church, and apply it to the individual partisan, is recognized slipslop, but not ground of argument.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

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