slop
noun
- soft mixture of water and any combination of soil, silt, and clay
- tasteless drink or semiliquid food
- liquid that was spilled
- food that is discarded, disposed of or lost uneaten
- unwanted or unusable material
- product with little value
- content of little value generated by an artificial intelligence program
noun
- wide, baggy breeches of the 17th century
- sailor clothing
verb
- to dash or lay on carelessly
- pour untidily
- make noises like a liquid in a container
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /slɒp/ / /slɑp/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- Proto-Germanic *slup-? Old English *slop Middle English slop English slop From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).
- Being or relating to slops (cheap or ready-made clothing).
noun
Etymology: Alteration of ecilop, back slang for police.
- 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? […]”
“Covey’s most stimulating impression on the sense of colour is in the blue of the police. He says he shouldn’t have thought that there were so many ‘slops’ in the world, and he seems to yield for a moment to the depressing conviction that we are too much governed.”
verb
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.
- 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”
- In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
- To feed pigs.
- 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.”