slops

slop ¹  (slp)

n.

1. Spilled or splashed liquid.

2. Soft mud or slush.

3. Unappetizing watery food or soup.

4. Waste food used to feed pigs or other animals; swill. Often used in the plural.

5. Mash remaining after alcohol distillation. Often used in the plural.

6. Human excrement. Often used in the plural.

7. Repulsively effusive writing or speech; drivel.

v. slopped, slop·ping, slops

v.intr.

1. To be spilled or splashed: Suds slopped over the rim of the washtub.

2. To spill over; overflow.

3. To walk heavily or messily in or as if in mud; plod: "He slopped along in broken slippers, hands in pockets, whistling" (Alan Sillitoe).

4. To express oneself effusively; gush.

v.tr.

1. To spill (liquid).

2. To spill liquid on.

3. To serve unappetizingly or clumsily; dish out: slopped some lasagna onto his plate.

4. To feed slops to (animals): slopped the hogs.

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[Middle English sloppe, a muddy place, perhaps from Old English *sloppe, dung, slime; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots.]

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slop ²  (slp)

n.

1. slops Articles of clothing and bedding issued or sold to sailors.

2. slops Short full trousers worn in the 16th century.

3. A loose outer garment, such as a smock or overalls.

4. slops Chiefly British Cheap, ready-made garments.

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[Middle English sloppe, a kind of garment, from Old English -slop (in oferslop, surplice; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots).]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	slops - wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk pigswill, pigwash, slop, swill feed, provender - food for domestic livestock
	2.	slops - cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain) article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wearable, vesture, wear - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

Translations

slops [slɒps] npl (for animals) → pastone m; (dirty water) → acqua sporca; (in teacup) → rimasugli mpl

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slops [slɒps] npl (for animals) → pastone m; (dirty water) → acqua sporca; (in teacup) → rimasugli mpl