slop
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6.8
- noun
- /slɑp/
- Archaic
:
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- I'll be back bright and early to empty your slops.
- slop bucket
- empty the slops
Examples
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I must have seen the other woman within you– the one that came here, scrubbed floors and emptied slop pails... and fought nausea and weariness and fear– the real woman.
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Charlotte waited until the silence was oppressive, then she leaned across, poured the dregs of Amethyst's tea into the slop basin, and filled her cup again from the pot.
Fiction book (1990) -
All you fit to do is clean her slop jar and cook her food.
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Ain't there enough slop on this deck already?
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I had gone out early to empty the ashes and slops, hating to spread the ugly yellow and gray on the clean new snow.
Fiction book (1991) -
After the Thanksgiving meal, Mother Collins and her five grown daughters pushed back from the table and carried slops to the pens.
Fiction book (1991) -
He could see people drawing water from the river, even as sailors emptied slop buckets over the sides of their vessels not a dozen feet away.
Fiction book (1990) -
In the pit, garbage, slops, and animal bones stripped of skin floated in a stew that was pocked by rain.
Fiction book (1992) -
If you ask me, milord, he's a stench in the nostrils... a sewer of ugliness, and a gutter brimming with slop.
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The restaurant had to dispose of all the leftover slop from last night's dinner before opening for lunch.
Synonyms
30
4.8
A thick, wet, muddy substance that comes from dirty water
9
7.7
A thick, muddy mix of small solid pieces in water or another liquid
Kitchen waste mixed with water or milk that people feed to pigs
A thin watery food or drink with little flavor
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A health slogan telling people to wear a shirt, use sunscreen, and wear a hat for sun protection
How Dirty
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slops (often plural) refers to dirty water or liquid waste from the kitchen or chamber pots that must be carried out. The word links back to the idea of messy, watery refuse, which is why people once had to pour out their 'slops'.