to slop
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7.4
- verb
- /slɑp/
:
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- After the heavy rain, we had to be careful not to slop through the muddy puddles on the path.
Examples
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The cops are at ease; bellies slop over belts; neatly pressed blouses strain over breasts; sweat stains; shirtsleeves.
Fiction book (1995) -
Behind her, she hears Myrkle's daughter slopping the string mop in and out of the steel bucket and then swishing it across the brick floor of the kitchen.
Fiction book (1992) -
Are you going to be slopping around an amniot fluid?
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If you had just slopping back and forth, pow, pow, pow.
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He'd come slopping and slouching out on stage, but when he picked up the guitar and started to sing, it was like a charge of electricity had gone through him.
Fiction book (1990) -
She lugged it into place behind the rocker, only just managing not to slop muddy water onto the carpet.
Fiction book (1997) -
The deluge turned the ground to slop, sprang leaks in the roof, and washed out the floodgates at the edge of the granite mountains.
Fiction book (1990) -
Instead, I let the boot drop to the stone floor, sending small clots of mud slopping about the porch (some of which, I was pleased to see, ended up on Holmes' trouser leg), and bent to my rucksack.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm only watering the tree that my father waters with thick, slopping streams from the hose, much thicker than this thin silver arc of mine that sends them all scattering now, shouting their shock and triumph and, I hope, admiration.
Fiction book (1995) -
He accidentally slopped mud onto his shoes while traversing the field after the rain.
Synonyms
91
1.0
To make liquid move so it hits things and makes noise
22
3.7
To move liquid so it splashes or to walk through water making splashing sounds
10
5.3
To walk with a soft, wet sucking sound through mud
4
7.5
To walk with heavy, noisy steps that make a loud sound
4
3.5
To walk by dragging your feet and making a soft rubbing sound
3
7.0
Make a soft, wet sucking sound, for example when you walk on mud
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3.7
To move by dragging the feet and making soft noises
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9.9
To move in a heavy, noisy, and clumsy way
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5.3
To walk slowly with heavy steps, often through mud or when tired
To move with difficulty through wet, soft ground, making splashes
To move through water and make a loud wet sound
To move slowly through wet or muddy ground
To move or splash with force and noise
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Archaic
A health slogan telling people to wear a shirt, use sunscreen, and wear a hat for sun protection
How Wet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slop as a verb meaning to walk through mud comes from the sound and idea of splashing in wet mess. That's why to 'slop' around is to make a squelching, wet noise as you move.