slops
9.9
Cheap ready-made clothes that sailors often wear
- noun
- /slɑps/
- Archaic
:
ropa de mala calidad
- In the 19th century, sailors often received slops as part of their provisions on long voyages.
Examples
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The sailors wore their old slops as they navigated through the stormy seas.
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You have sailors slops and you have trousers that sort of come in, but it's a very different way that they were worn.
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He bought a pair of slops from the local market for his fishing trip.
Synonyms
9.9
An old word for clothes
is a specific term for cheap ready-made clothing once issued to sailors
Surface Forms
slops plural
Morphology
slops = slop (opaque) = slop + s
The word is historically built from 'slop' plus plural '-s', but the clothing sense is archaic and not predictable from the modern meaning of 'slop'.
Etymology
Slops comes from an old Dutch word slop or sloppe meaning 'a loose garment'. Sailors often wore these cheap, loose clothes, so 'slops' became the name for ready-made sailor clothing.
