Slop

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É’p

Origin uncertain.

Full definition of slop

Noun

1. (now historical) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
2. (in the plural, obsolete) Loose trousers.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:Chrysippus said that some Philosophers would in open view of all men shew a dozen of tumbling-tricks, yea, without any slops or breeches, for a dozen of olives.
• Sir Philip SidneyA pair of slops.

Probably representing Old English *sloppe, related to slip.

Noun

1. (uncountable) A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste.
2. scraps used as food for pigs
3. (dated) Human urine or excrement.
4. Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
5. (chiefly plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.

Synonyms

• pig food: slops, hogwash, swill

Derived terms

• slops
• slop-jar
• slop-basin
• slop-bowl
• slop-pail

Verb

1. (transitive) to spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves.I slopped water all over my shirt.
2. (transitive) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
• 1950, Howard William Troyer, The salt and the savor (page 58)a little Durham bull butted the pail and slopped him with the milk
3. (transitive) In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
4. (transitive) to feed pigs

Related terms

• sloppy

Anagrams

• lops
• pols