slops

noun

Definitions

  1. Loose trousers.

    • Chrysippus said that some Philosophers would in open view of all men shew a dozen of tumbling-tricks, yea, without any slops or breeches, for a dozen of olives.
    • A pair of slops.
  2. Sailors’ breeches ending just below the knees or above the ankles, worn mainly in XVIII…

    Sailors’ breeches ending just below the knees or above the ankles, worn mainly in XVIII century.

  3. Clothing and bedding issued to sailors.

  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. plural of slop (“rubber thong sandals”)

    2. plural of slop (“scraps fed to animals

      plural of slop (“scraps fed to animals; household wastewater”)

      • I don't mind slopping the hogs, but I don't like the stench of the slops.
    3. third-person singular simple present indicative of slop

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