slop

noun
/slɒp/UK/slɑp/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Old English *sloppe Middle English *sloppe? English slop Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in cūsloppe), alternative form of Old English slyppe. Related to slip. (Internet slang) Possibly a backformation from goyslop.

  1. inherited from slyppe
  2. inherited from *sloppe
  3. inherited from *sloppe

Definitions

  1. A loose outer garment

    A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.

  2. A flip-flop.

  3. Being or relating to slops (cheap or ready-made clothing).

  4. + 14 more definitions
    1. Semi-solid-like substance

      Semi-solid-like substance; goo, paste, mud, pulp.

    2. Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.

    3. Inferior, weak drink or semi-liquid food.

    4. Human urine or excrement.

    5. Domestic wastewater.

    6. Liquid carelessly spilled upon a surface

      Liquid carelessly spilled upon a surface; a soiled spot.

    7. Fellatio.

      • All on my dick, she won't stop, yah
    8. A dance popular in the 1960s.

      • Do the monkey, do the pony
    9. Content or entertainment which is worthless, or produced and consumed mindlessly.

      • In a night spent surfing the television “datasphere” (to use another Cyberia buzzword), you can watch slop like Knight Rider 2010 (where virtual reality is a weekly plot point)
      • We don't have a half-naked, barely-sentient scream queen on the cover. We don't give a shit about big-budget Hollywood slop. We don't focus exclusively on obsessive fanboy genres.
    10. To spill or dump liquid upon

      To spill or dump liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.

      • I slopped water all over my shirt.
      • a little Durham bull butted the pail and slopped him with the milk
    11. In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident

      In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.

    12. To feed pigs.

    13. To make one's way through soggy terrain.

      • We slopped through paddies in 100-degree-plus heat and slept with one eye open at night.
    14. A policeman.

      • Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak. After hearing the slop tell his tale, he says to me: 'What do you know of this man? […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slop. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA