sloppingn.
/ˈslɒpɪŋ/ a. The action of the verb in various senses.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating sloppy food
sloppingc1771
the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of spilling or that which is spilled > [noun] > slopping
slop1699
slopping1881
slop-over1908
sloppage1962
c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath i. 9 When I am got out of one fit how the devil am I to gather strength to encounter the next. Do you think it is to be done by sipping, and slopping?
1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. The slopping of the water outside made a strange sound.
1888 Scribner's Mag. 3 427 It prevents slopping, but on the other hand makes it hard to pour.
b. With adverbs, as -out (see slop v.2 1c), -over; slopping-up (North American slang), a drinking-bout.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout
cups1406
drinking?1518
banquet1535
Bacchanal1536
pot-revel1577
compotation1593
rouse1604
Bacchanalia1633
potmealc1639
bout1670
drinking-bout1673
carouse1690
carousal1765
drunk1779
bouse1786
toot1790
set-to1808
spree1811
fuddlea1813
screed1815
bust1834
lush1841
bender1846
bat1848
buster1848
burst1849
soak1851
binge1854
bumming1860
bust-out1861
bum1863
booze1864
drink1865
ran-tan1866
cupping1868
crawl1877
hellbender1877
break-away1885
periodical1886
jag1894
booze-up1897
slopping-up1899
souse1903
pub crawl1915
blind1917
beer-up1919
periodic1920
scoot1924
brannigan1927
rumba1934
boozeroo1943
sesh1943
session1943
piss-up1950
pink-eye1958
binge drinking1964
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > of something confined > spilling out
spilling1883
spillage1934
slopping1945
sloppage1962
1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps ii. iv. 271 The bums intended to have a great ‘sloppin'-up’ (drinking-bout).
1922 H. Kemp Tramping on Life 133 ‘Slopping up’ is what the tramps call a drinking jamboree.
1945 H. Read Coat of Many Colours lxii. 304 But there is no slopping-over of irrelevant emotion.
1948 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 9 Jan. 16/1 This [sc. a fulsome speech] is what is known among the hamlets of his native State as ‘slopping over’, and is considered as serious a breach of etiquette as..beating one's grandmother in public.
1955 Times 25 May 6/6 A hospital officer at the prison, said that on May 7 he was unlocking doors for ‘slopping out’ to be done.
1968 L. Deighton Only when I Larf xviii. 232 You can tell a new warder; they just can't stand the smell of the slopping-out each morning.
1976 ‘O. Jacks’ Assassination Day v. 80 A long term in prison..reviled him, from slopping out to terrible food.
Derivatives
ˈslopping adj.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of spilling or that which is spilled > [adjective] > spilling or splashing
slopping1839
1839 T. Hood Ode to St. Swithin vii Milkmaids, and other slopping benefactors!
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