slop
3
4.7
- noun
- /slɑp/
:
lodo
- High snowdrifts lined both sides of Michigan Avenue; wagon traffic had churned the center to brown slop.
- muddy slop
- turn to slop
- mud and slop
Examples
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My fantasies vanished completely the winter morning I took a visitor to a pueblo where an aged woman wearing a striped cotton shawl over her head stepped out of a door into the snowy mud with a slop jar in hand.
Fiction book (1998) -
This is covered with slop.
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A great towering mountain of slop.
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He tracks boot slop through the bedroom.
Fiction book (1995) -
On the muddy path, they struggled to walk through the deep slop that made each step a challenge.
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After the heavy rain, the farmers found their fields covered in thick slop, making it hard to move around.
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During the storm, the park was turned into a quagmire, with slippery slop everywhere, making it unsafe to walk.
Synonyms
455
1.0
Soft wet earth that forms after rain and is often sticky
30
4.8
A thick, wet, muddy substance that comes from dirty water
4
7.4
Deep soft wet ground like a bog that is hard to walk through
4
8.9
A wet, muddy area of land with slow-moving water where plants grow
2
8.5
Soft wet ground that gives way under your feet
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A health slogan telling people to wear a shirt, use sunscreen, and wear a hat for sun protection
How Muddy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slop also came to mean deep, soft mud or slush because it describes the wet, splashy stuff you walk through. That's why your boots get covered in 'slop' after a rainy walk.