Definitions
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- noun idiomatic One of the four components of the traditional
tea set . Tea drinkers emptied their unwanted, coldtea into the slop bowl before refilling their cups with fresh, hot tea.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bowl into which the dregs of teacups and coffee cups are emptied at the table
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Examples
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“Slop bowl” is the term many use for the nebulous mash of ingredients served up at fast-casual restaurants — Cava, Naya, Sweetgreen, Chopt — where the selling point of the assembly line is efficiency, not craft: “VC-funded millennial slop bowl,” Andy Verderosa, who works in advertising, called it in a recent post on X.
Living the Slop Life 2025
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Regardless of whether you choose to call them by a more appetizing name (maybe “lunch”?), there’s no denying it: “Slop bowls” have come to rule our culinary existence.
One Style of Food Has Taken Over American Lunches. Here’s How to Sort the Delicious From the Disgusting. Nadira Goffe 2025
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I fucking LOVE slop bowls. Let me just shovel it in my mouth without a care in the world.
It’s me again; the slop bowl girl with chewing problems, here with another bowl of slop for you MuchBetterThankYou 2025
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