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Slops

noun

1.

Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk. Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, swill.

2.

Cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain).

Slop

noun

1.

Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk. Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slops, swill.

2.

Deep soft mud in water or slush. Synonym: mire.

3.

(usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.

4.

(usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink.

5.

Writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental. Synonyms: glop, mush, treacle.

verb

(past & past part. slopped; pres. part. slopping)

1.

Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container. Synonyms: spill, splatter. "Splatter water"

2.

Walk through mud or mire. Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh, squelch, squish.

3.

Ladle clumsily.

4.

Feed pigs. Synonym: swill.

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"Slops" Quotes from Famous Books

... ter be tooken out'n her trough, by rights. Ef I could feed her on bran an' good warm slops a while, de churn would purty soon 'spute ...

— Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches • Ruth McEnery Stuart

... several of which were caught with hook and line; and were very well relished by many of the people, notwithstanding they were at this time served with fresh mutton. Judging that we should soon come into cold weather, I ordered slops to be served to such as were in want; and gave to each man the fearnought jacket and trowsers allowed them by ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 • Robert Kerr

... had musicians to deal with. There was hearty laughter at this, and as young laughter warms the cockles of an old man's heart, I invited the pair indoors, and over some bottled ale—I despise your new-fangled slops—we discussed the Fine Arts. It is not the custom nowadays to capitalize the arts, and to me it reveals the want of respect in this headlong irreverent generation. To return to my mutton—to my ...

— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker

... Keith Wellander," the father read out. "A friendly warning, to be remembered in the morning and all through the day. He who slops at meals is a pig that squeals and ...

— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman

... in a mood for knocking seven bells out of the universe. He began on Mauki, and wound up on Mauki, in the interval knocking down his wife and hammering all the boat boys. At breakfast he called the coffee slops and threw the scalding contents of the cup into Mauki's face. By ten o'clock Bunster was shivering with ague, and half an hour later he was burning with fever. It was no ordinary attack. It quickly became pernicious, and developed into black-water fever. ...

— South Sea Tales • Jack London

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