slop

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slɒp/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment; surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).

Noun

slop (plural slops)

1. (now historical) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
2. (in the plural, obsolete) Loose trousers.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, printed at London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821:
     , II.12:

     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.

   • Sir Philip Sidney

     A pair of slops.

Etymology 2

Probably representing Old English *sloppe, related to slip.

Noun

slop (plural slops)

1. (uncountable) A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste.
2. Scraps used as food for pigs.
3. (dated) Human urine or excrement.
4. Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
5. (chiefly plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.

Synonyms

• pig food: slops, hogwash, swill

Derived terms

Derived terms

• slop-basin
• slop-bowl
• slop-jar

• slop out
• slop-pail
• slops

Translations

A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud

• Finnish: muta (fi)
• Portuguese: lodo (pt) m
• Russian: помо́и (ru) m pl (pomói)

• Swahili: dimbwa (sw)
• Swedish: slem (sv)

scraps which are fed to pigs

• Finnish: ruoantähteet
• Macedonian: помија f (pómija)
• Polish: pomyje n pl
• Portuguese: lavagem (pt) f

• Russian: помо́и (ru) m pl (pomói), пойло (ru) (pojlo)
• Spanish: bazofia (es) f, tichate m
• Swahili: dimbwa (sw)
• Swedish: skula (sv)

clothing and bedding issued to sailors

• Swahili: dimbwa (sw)

Verb

slop (third-person singular simple present slops, present participle slopping, simple past and past participle slopped)

1. (transitive) to spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves.

   I slopped water all over my shirt.

2. (transitive) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
   • 1950, Howard William Troyer, The salt and the savor (page 58)

     a little Durham bull butted the pail and slopped him with the milk

3. (transitive) In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
4. (transitive) to feed pigs

Related terms

• sloppy

Translations

to spill or dump liquid

• Finnish: läikyttää (fi)
• Portuguese: entornar (pt)

• Swahili: dimbwa (sw)

to feed pigs

• Finnish: ruokkia sikoja

• Macedonian: крми (k'rmi)

Etymology 3

Alteration of esclop, from back slang for police.

Noun

slop (plural slops)

1. (archaic, costermongers) A policeman.
   • 1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers:

     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? […]

   • 1899, Whiteing, Richard, chapter XXIV, in No. 5 John Street‎^[1], page 240:

     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.

Synonyms

• For semantic relationships of this term, see police officer in the Thesaurus.

Related terms

• namesclop

Anagrams

• LPOs, lops, pols, splo

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slɔp/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

slop n (plural sloppen, diminutive slopje n)

1. a bad situation
2. run-down house, shanty

Synonyms

• (run-down house): krot

Anagrams

• pols

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɔ́p/
• Tonal orthography: slȍp

Noun

slòp m inan (genitive slôpa, nominative plural slôpi)

1. pillar

Declension

Declension of slòp (masculine inan., hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	slòp	slôpa	slôpi
accusative	slòp	slôpa	slôpe
genitive	slôpa	slôpov	slôpov
dative	slôpu	slôpoma	slôpom
locative	slôpu	slôpih	slôpih
instrumental	slôpom	slôpoma	slôpi

Derived terms

• slôpen