Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Articles of clothing and bedding issued or sold to sailors.
- noun Short full trousers worn in the 16th century.
- noun A loose outer garment, such as a smock or overalls.
- noun Chiefly British Cheap, ready-made garments.
- noun Spilled or splashed liquid.
- noun Soft mud or slush.
- noun Unappetizing watery food or soup.
- noun Waste food used to feed pigs or other animals; swill.
- noun Mash remaining after alcohol distillation.
- noun Human excrement.
- noun Repulsively effusive writing or speech; drivel.
- intransitive verb To be spilled or splashed.
- intransitive verb To spill over; overflow.
- intransitive verb To walk heavily or messily in or as if in mud; plod.
- intransitive verb To express oneself effusively; gush.
- intransitive verb To spill (liquid).
- intransitive verb To spill liquid on.
- intransitive verb To serve unappetizingly or clumsily; dish out.
- intransitive verb To feed slops to (animals).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The product from finely ground Indian corn freed from the germs and bolted, the bran which remains on the bolting-cloth sieves being pressed, mixed with about 50 per cent. of water, and sold for immediate use as cattle-food. Also called glucose food, sugar-food, corn-food, etc.
- noun A puddle; a miry or slippery place.
- noun Liquid carelessly dropped or spilled about; a wet place.
- noun plural Liquid food or nourishment; thin food, as gruel or thin broth prepared for the sick: so called in contempt.
- noun plural The waste, dirty water, dregs, etc., of a house.
- noun In ceramics, same as
slip , 11. - To spill, as a liquid; usually, to spill by causing to overflow the edge of a containing vessel: as, to
slop water on the floor in carrying a full pail. - To drinkgreedily and grossly; swill.
- To spill liquid upon; soil by letting a liquid fall upon: as, the table was s lopped with drink.
- To be spilled or overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it: usually with over.
- To work or walk in the wet; make a slop.
- noun Originally, an outer garment, as a jacket or cassock; in later provincial use, “an outer garment made of linen; a smock-frock; a nightgown” (Wright).
- noun A garment covering the legs and the body below the waist, worn by men, and varying in cut according to the fashion: in this sense also in the plural.
- noun Clothing; ready-made clothing; in the British navy, the clothes and bedding of the men, which are supplied by the government at about cost price: usually in the plural.
- noun An article of clothing made of leather, apparently shoes or slippers. They are mentioned as of black, tawny, and red leather, and as being of small cost.
- noun A tailor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with
over . - noun Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
- noun Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
- noun Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
- noun a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table.
- noun (Brickmaking) a process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the drying ground in a wet mold instead of on a pallet.
- noun obsolete Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
- noun A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
- noun Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
- transitive verb To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
- transitive verb To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun now historical A loose outer garment; a
jacket oroverall . - noun in the plural, obsolete Loose
trousers . - noun uncountable A
liquid or semi-solid ;goo ,paste ,mud , domestic liquid waste.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He was old but he was still winning ballgames throwing what we call slop—a screwball here, take a little off there, bust a fastball in on your fists.
ROB NEYER’S BIG BOOK OF BASEBALL LEGENDS ROB NEYER 2008
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This kind of slop is creeping into discourse everywhere, the cultural influence of Bush Republicanism is going to live long after he is history.
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A great bait for slop is one called the Bill Norman Weed Walker.
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The only difference between Grassley and a bucket of Iowa pig slop is the bucket.
Grassley insists he's still looking to make a health care deal 2009
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A great bait for slop is one called the Bill Norman Weed Walker.
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He was happy as a pig in slop to put on the jacket and stand with real soldiers and look impressive.
McCain: Don't blame Pres. Bush for 'Mission Accomplished' 2008
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Food, similar to what they are familiar with, namely half rotted maggoty dumpster slop, is provided, free of charge.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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They were tailors -- or, rather, what are sometimes called slop-shop, or clothing men.
Lizzy Glenn 1847
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Pressing onward, we find that the word slop originally was slip, a kind of goopy, wet, clay mixture, a term still used in ceramics.
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On both the QE2 and Freedom of the Seas, a lot of what I was served in the dining rooms could only be described as "slop" -- not surprising, considering that the cooks have to turn out thousands of meals almost simultaneously.
How I Learned 2007
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Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content
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Slop, at least in the fast-moving world of online message boards, is a broad term that has developed some traction in reference to shoddy or unwanted A.I. content in social media, art, books and, increasingly, in search results.
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Unwanted, spammy Delvish content has already acquired many pejorative neologisms, such as “fluff,” “machine slop,” “botshit” and “ChatGPTese.”
Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect, by Bruce Sterling Bruce Sterling 2024
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Unwanted, spammy Delvish content has already acquired many pejorative neologisms, such as “fluff,” “machine slop,” “botshit” and “ChatGPTese.”
Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect, by Bruce Sterling Bruce Sterling 2024
bilby commented on the word slop
"Slopping is always awkward or disagreeable."
No wonder sales are down :-(
April 25, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word slop
"12. A garment covering the legs and the body below the waist, worn by men, and varying in cut according to the fashion: in this sense also in the plural." -- Cent. Dict.
May 26, 2011