Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Spilled or splashed liquid.
- noun Soft mud or slush.
- noun Unappetizing watery food or soup.
- noun Waste food used to feed pigs or other animals; swill.
- noun Mash remaining after alcohol distillation.
- noun Human excrement.
- noun Repulsively effusive writing or speech; drivel.
- intransitive verb To be spilled or splashed.
- intransitive verb To spill over; overflow.
- intransitive verb To walk heavily or messily in or as if in mud; plod.
- intransitive verb To express oneself effusively; gush.
- intransitive verb To spill (liquid).
- intransitive verb To spill liquid on.
- intransitive verb To serve unappetizingly or clumsily; dish out.
- intransitive verb To feed slops to (animals).
- noun Articles of clothing and bedding issued or sold to sailors.
- noun Short full trousers worn in the 16th century.
- noun A loose outer garment, such as a smock or overalls.
- noun Chiefly British Cheap, ready-made garments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A puddle; a miry or slippery place.
- noun Liquid carelessly dropped or spilled about; a wet place.
- noun plural Liquid food or nourishment; thin food, as gruel or thin broth prepared for the sick: so called in contempt.
- noun plural The waste, dirty water, dregs, etc., of a house.
- noun In ceramics, same as
slip , 11. - To spill, as a liquid; usually, to spill by causing to overflow the edge of a containing vessel: as, to
slop water on the floor in carrying a full pail. - To drinkgreedily and grossly; swill.
- To spill liquid upon; soil by letting a liquid fall upon: as, the table was s lopped with drink.
- To be spilled or overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it: usually with over.
- To work or walk in the wet; make a slop.
- noun The product from finely ground Indian corn freed from the germs and bolted, the bran which remains on the bolting-cloth sieves being pressed, mixed with about 50 per cent. of water, and sold for immediate use as cattle-food. Also called glucose food, sugar-food, corn-food, etc.
- noun Originally, an outer garment, as a jacket or cassock; in later provincial use, “an outer garment made of linen; a smock-frock; a nightgown” (Wright).
- noun A garment covering the legs and the body below the waist, worn by men, and varying in cut according to the fashion: in this sense also in the plural.
- noun Clothing; ready-made clothing; in the British navy, the clothes and bedding of the men, which are supplied by the government at about cost price: usually in the plural.
- noun An article of clothing made of leather, apparently shoes or slippers. They are mentioned as of black, tawny, and red leather, and as being of small cost.
- noun A tailor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
- noun Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
- noun Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
- noun a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table.
- noun (Brickmaking) a process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the drying ground in a wet mold instead of on a pallet.
- transitive verb To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
- transitive verb To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
- intransitive verb To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with
over . - noun obsolete Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
- noun A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
- noun Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun now historical A loose outer garment; a
jacket oroverall . - noun in the plural, obsolete Loose
trousers . - noun uncountable A
liquid or semi-solid ;goo ,paste ,mud , domestic liquid waste.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He was old but he was still winning ballgames throwing what we call slop—a screwball here, take a little off there, bust a fastball in on your fists.
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This kind of slop is creeping into discourse everywhere, the cultural influence of Bush Republicanism is going to live long after he is history.
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A great bait for slop is one called the Bill Norman Weed Walker.
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The only difference between Grassley and a bucket of Iowa pig slop is the bucket.
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A great bait for slop is one called the Bill Norman Weed Walker.
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He was happy as a pig in slop to put on the jacket and stand with real soldiers and look impressive.
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Food, similar to what they are familiar with, namely half rotted maggoty dumpster slop, is provided, free of charge.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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They were tailors -- or, rather, what are sometimes called slop-shop, or clothing men.
Lizzy Glenn 1847
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Pressing onward, we find that the word slop originally was slip, a kind of goopy, wet, clay mixture, a term still used in ceramics.
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On both the QE2 and Freedom of the Seas, a lot of what I was served in the dining rooms could only be described as "slop" -- not surprising, considering that the cooks have to turn out thousands of meals almost simultaneously.
How I Learned 2007
bilby commented on the word slop
"Slopping is always awkward or disagreeable."
No wonder sales are down :-(
April 25, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word slop
"12. A garment covering the legs and the body below the waist, worn by men, and varying in cut according to the fashion: in this sense also in the plural." -- Cent. Dict.
May 26, 2011