slop

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slɒp/
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  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

Etymology 2

Probably representing (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 in the plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
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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
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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, Richard Whiteing, 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.
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Pronunciation

Noun

slop n (plural sloppen, diminutive slopje n)

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

Synonyms

  • (run-down house): krot

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Slovene

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Noun

slȍp m inan

  1. pillar

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. slòp
gen. sing. slôpa
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		slòp slôpa slôpi
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		slôpa slôpov slôpov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		slôpu slôpoma slôpom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		slòp slôpa slôpe
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		slôpu slôpih slôpih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		slôpom slôpoma slôpi

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