n. 1. Spilled or splashed liquid. 2. Soft mud or slush. 3. Unappetizing watery food or soup. 4. often slops Waste food used to feed pigs or other animals; swill. 5. often slops Mash remaining after alcohol distillation. 6. often slops Human excrement. 7. Repulsively effusive writing or speech; drivel. v. slopped, slop·ping, slops v.intr. 1. To be spilled or splashed: Suds slopped over the rim of the washtub. 2. To spill over; overflow. 3. To walk heavily or messily in or as if in mud; plod: "He slopped along in broken slippers, hands in pockets, whistling" (Alan Sillitoe). 4. To express oneself effusively; gush. v.tr. 1. To spill (liquid). 2. To spill liquid on. 3. To serve unappetizingly or clumsily; dish out: slopped some lasagna onto his plate. 4. To feed slops to (animals): slopped the hogs. [Middle English sloppe, a muddy place, perhaps from Old English *sloppe, dung, slime; see sleubh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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n. 1. slops Articles of clothing and bedding issued or sold to sailors. 2. slops Short full trousers worn in the 16th century. 3. A loose outer garment, such as a smock or overalls. 4. slops Chiefly British Cheap, ready-made garments. [Middle English sloppe, a kind of garment, from Old English -slop (in oferslop, surplice); see sleubh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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