slip-slop

9.9

A thin watery food or drink with little flavor

noun

: comida aguada

The soup was just a bowl of slip-slop.

Examples

He pushed away the bowl of slip-slop, wishing for something more filling.
The hospital served nothing but slip-slop for dinner, leaving the patients hungry.
After hours of hiking, they were disappointed to find only slip-slop at the campsite.
After the meal, I realized it was nothing but slip-slop.
The hospital served nothing but slip-slop for dinner, leaving the patients hungry.
After hours of hiking, they were disappointed to find only slip-slop at the campsite.
He pushed away the bowl of slip-slop, wishing for something more filling.

Synonyms

slop

vsslip-slop

12 6.4

Wet, unappetizing food often fed to animals

is used for thin watery food or drink lacking flavor, not only animal feed

slops

vsslip-slop

Archaic

1 7.6

Kitchen waste mixed with water or milk that people feed to pigs

is broader, meaning watery unappetizing food or drink not limited to waste feed

How Appetizing

hearty meal

3 1.6

stew

107 1.0

soup

648 1.0

broth

66 1.0

slip-slop

9.9

Surface Forms

slip-slop singular

slip-slops plural

Morphology

slip-slop = slip + slop (semi-transparent) = slip + slop

Formed from two existing words whose senses ('slip' and 'slop') evoke slipperiness and messiness, but the idiomatic meaning 'thin, unappetizing liquid food' is a somewhat specialized, reduplicative extension.

Etymology

Slip-slop comes from repeating the familiar word slop, which means a 'watery' or messy food, and the copy makes the idea feel weaker or cheaper. So slip-slop is an easy way to talk about a thin, unappetizing liquid meal.