slops
- noun
- /slɑps/
- Archaic
:
sobras
- The farmer poured the slops into the pig trough every morning.
Examples
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The children collected slops after dinner to take to the pigs.
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It is illegal in some countries to feed kitchen slops to livestock due to disease risk.
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The farmer fed the pigs with slops.
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They used to give the old slops to the chickens.
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The farmer poured the slops into the pig trough every morning.
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The children collected slops after dinner to take to the pigs.
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It is illegal in some countries to feed kitchen slops to livestock due to disease risk.
Synonyms
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8.5
Food leftovers mixed with water or milk used to feed pigs
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6.4
Wet, unappetizing food often fed to animals
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2.7
A small amount of leftover food from a meal that is given to animals or thrown away
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9.3
Wet food made from kitchen waste mixed with water or milk to feed pigs
A wet mix of kitchen scraps and water used to feed pigs
A thin watery food or drink with little flavor
How Wet
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Slops in the kitchen sense comes from the old word slop meaning 'a splash' or 'watery mess', which is the same idea behind sloppy. So 'slops' are the wet food scraps or kitchen waste fed to pigs.