Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shop where slops, or ready-made clothes, are sold. See
slopseller .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A
shop whereslops , or ready-madeclothes , are sold.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a store that sells cheap ready-made clothing
Etymologies
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Examples
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And then that smug-faced, smooth-tongued, dirty-looking chaplain, with his second-hand shirt collars and slopshop morality -- was it whiskey or brandy that his breath smelt oftenest of?
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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He kept a stinking slopshop in Bishopsgate Street, and a still more stinking schism-shop in
The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) May Sinclair 1904
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So that as soon as my comrade was decently array'd at the first slopshop we came to, 'twas high time to seek an inn.
The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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To the right of the alley the barber had affixed his signboard, close above the base of his pole; to the left a flanking slopshop dangled a row of cast-off suits, while immediately overhead was nailed a board painted over with ornate flourishes and the legend --
Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Well, when he come out I stood back out of sight, and then tracked him to a second-hand slopshop and see him buy a red flannel shirt and some old ragged clothes -- just the ones he's got on now, as you've described.
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He went straight to a slopshop and bought as neat and reasonably well-fitting a suit of clothes as an Englishman could be persuaded to wear.
The American Claimant Mark Twain 1872
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On the 26 Thermidor, An III., two wretches, one a newspaper-vendor and the other a slopshop-keeper, were condemned to death and executed for the murder of the Abbé Paquot and of the curé of Rilly.
France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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At the first slopshop I encountered in the suburbs of the town, I got a carpet-bag and a clerical-looking suit.
A Rogue's Life Wilkie Collins 1856
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