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.

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  • noun dated A shop where slops, or ready-made clothes, 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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slop +‎ shop

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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