slop
11
6.4
- noun
- /slɑp/
:
comida para cerdos
- The farmer prepared a large bucket of slop to feed the pigs.
- eat slop
- pig slop
- slop bucket
And then you get the plate and it's like, this is slop.
- And then you get the plate and it's like, this is slop.
Examples
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As I watched the pigs eat the corn slop, I began to fear that our father's return was going to be disastrous.
Fiction book (1993) -
How can you eat that slop?
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I must apologize for this slop that cook calls food.
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- They feed better slop to the pigs back home.
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Are you trying to feed us pig slop?
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Smells like the slop we'd give to the pigs back home.
Fiction book (1998) -
This slop is rotten!
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These places are prisons, and we're packed in there like sardines, fed cheap slop, and worked to the bone 14 hours a day.
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Crawford walks the endless length of the trough and pours an endless stream of slop from a bucket.
Fiction book (1992) -
A corrections officer testified that the riot was about the fare: "The food is slop," he said (quoted in Spears 2009).
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
13
8.5
Food leftovers mixed with water or milk used to feed pigs
1
9.3
Wet food made from kitchen waste mixed with water or milk to feed pigs
Kitchen waste mixed with water or milk that people feed to pigs
A wet mix of kitchen scraps and water used to feed pigs
A thin watery food or drink with little flavor
Compounds
- Archaic
A health slogan telling people to wear a shirt, use sunscreen, and wear a hat for sun protection
How Appetizing
37
6.3
11
6.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slop originally meant wet, leftover food given to animals, especially pigs. That's why to 'slop' the pigs is to feed them kitchen refuse.