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

11 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

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

2 1.6

stew

110 1.0

soup

733 1.0

broth

76 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.