slop Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
    pigwash; swill; slops; pigswill.
  2. noun deep soft mud in water or slush
    mire.
    • they waded through the slop
  3. noun (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand
    • she carried out the sink slops
  4. noun (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
    • he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided
  5. noun writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
    glop; treacle; mush.
  6. verb cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
    splatter; spill.
    • spill the milk
    • splatter water
  7. verb walk through mud or mire
    slosh; squish; splosh; splash; squelch.
    • We had to splosh across the wet meadow
  8. verb ladle clumsily
    • slop the food onto the plate
  9. verb feed pigs
    swill.

WordNet

Slop noun
Etymology
OE. sloppe a pool; akin to As. sloppe, slyppe, the sloppy droppings of a cow; cf. AS. slpan to slip, and E. slip, v.i. Cf. Cowslip.
Definitions
  1. Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
  2. Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
  3. pl. Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
Slop transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Slopped ; present participle & verbal noun Slopping
Definitions
  1. To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
  2. To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
Slop intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.
Slop noun
Etymology
AS. slop a frock or over-garment, fr. slpan to slip, to slide; akin to Icel sloppr a thin garment; cf. OHG. slouf a garment. Cf. Slip, v. i.
Definitions
  1. Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock. Obs. Halliwell.
  2. A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural. "A pair of slops." Sir P. Sidney.
    There's a French salutation to your French slop. Shak.
  3. pl. Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.

Webster 1913