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slop I. \ˈsläp\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English sloppe, probably from Middle Dutch slop; akin to Old English oferslop surplice, stole, slop, Old Norse sloppr slop and probably to Old English slūpan to slip — more at sleeve 1. : a loose covering garment for workmen (as a smock, smock frock, apron, or overall) 2. a. slops plural : the short full breeches worn by men of fashion in the late 16th century b. dialect : loose baggy trousers or a trouser leg — usually used in plural 3. a. slops plural : clothing and other articles sold to sailors : a ship's small stores b. : cheap ready-made clothing — usually used in plural II. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English sloppe, probably from Old English sloppe dung (as in cū-sloppe cowslip, literally, cow's dung); akin to Old English slyppe, slypa slime, pulp, paste — more at slip 1. : a mud puddle : soft mud : slush 2. : thin tasteless drink or liquid food — usually used in plural < the thin slops provided on soup lines — American Guide Series: Oregon > < had eaten the prison slop without even suffering the gnawing pain of diarrhea — Douglass Cater > 3. : the spilling or splashing of something liquid or moist or the material spilled or splashed < washing up with slops of water and bashing of plates — Richard Llewellyn > < shoves her glass in its own slop over the bar — Brendan Gill > 4. a. (1) : food waste fed to animals : garbage < watching his pig eat slops — P.E.Green > (2) : a thin gruel for feeding animals < a slop of skim milk and bran > b. : excreted body waste — usually used in plural < emptying other people's slops — John Morrison > 5. : stillage 6. : sentimental or undiscerning effusiveness in speech or writing : gush III. verb (slopped ; slopped ; slopping ; slops) transitive verb 1. a. : to spill (something) from a container b. (1) : to splash (someone or something) with a liquid < passing cars kept slopping him as they went through puddles > (2) : to cause (a liquid) to splash < slopped water from the pail he carried > 2. : to slobber or spill liquid on < beer drinkers kept slopping the bar > 3. : to ladle, serve, or dish out clumsily or messily < his red, swollen hands slopped oatmeal into our plates — Ruth Domino > 4. : to eat or drink greedily or noisily : lap up : gobble < slopped up great tablespoonfuls of cereal — Hodding Carter > < so long as they could yap and slop beer — Mickey Spillane > 5. : to feed with slops < slopped hogs … to get the money to go to college — Newsweek > intransitive verb 1. a. : to plod or tramp in mud or slush < slopped along muddy roads > b. : to slouch or lounge about in slack, slatternly, or slovenly style < continental soldiers slopped about in a most unmilitary manner — Bruce Marshall > < for TV, they just slop around in the living room — Newsweek > 2. : to spill or splash over an edge (as of a container) < carried the soup so unsteadily that it slopped over > 3. : to go to excess in expression or conduct : be effusive or indiscriminate : gush — used with over < when an ambitious feature writer slops over — F.L.Mott > 4. : to exceed, overrun, or overflow boundaries or limits — used with over < my personal interests slop over into related fields — American Council of Learned Society Newsletter > 5. a. : to move or fit loosely < the plug gage was worn and had begun to slop > < the spindle slopped in its bearing > b. : to make a rhythmic slapping sound (as of a loose-fitting machine part or of plashing waves) < could hear his oars slopping in the rowlocks > |