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Slop   /slɑp/   Listen
noun
Slop  n.  
1.
Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
2.
Mean and weak drink or liquid food; usually in the plural.
3.
pl. Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
Slop basin, or Slop bowl, a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table.
Slop molding (Brickmaking), a process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the drying ground in a wet mold instead of on a pallet.


Slop  n.  
1.
Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock. (Obs.)
2.
A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural. "A pair of slops." "There's a French salutation to your French slop."
3.
pl. Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.


verb
Slop  v. t.  (past & past part. slopped; pres. part. slopping)  
1.
To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
2.
To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.


Slop  v. i.  To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; often with over.





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"Slop" Quotes from Famous Books



... came, how nice everything was down stairs. We cooked nearly a fortnight, and washed dishes, and everything; and we only had the floor scrubbed once, and there never was a slop on the stove, or a teaspoonful of anything spilled. It would be so different from a girl! It seems as if we might bring the kitchen up stairs, instead of going down into ...
— We Girls: A Home Story • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... when the men were gone, and he had bundled up his papers, "the law requires you to carry a slop-chest and a ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... that he would. It was her business and not his to feed the pigs. Besides, the bucket was very full. That its contents should stain her dress did not matter. It would have been a much more serious thing if any of the yellow slop had trickled ...
— General John Regan - 1913 • George A. Birmingham
... our halt at Suez, with visits to slop-shops and a general discussion of choppes. The old hotel, under the charge of Mr. and Mrs. Adams, had greatly improved by the "elimination" of the offensive Hindi element; and my old friends of a quarter-century's standing received me with all their ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton
... employments to rescue her children from a multitude of perils. An infant and a fireplace act upon each other like magnets; a small boy is always trying to eat a kettle or a piece of coal or the backbone of a herring; a little girl and a slop bucket are in immediate contact; the baby has a knife in its mouth; the twin is on the point of swallowing a marble, or is trying to wash itself in the butter, or the cat is about to take a nap on its face. Indeed, the woman who has six children never knows in what direction ...
— Mary, Mary • James Stephens


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