slop, n. [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.].

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot. [1913 Webster]
Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc. [1913 Webster]

Slop basin, or Slop bowl, a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table. -- Slop molding (Brickmaking), a process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the drying ground in a wet mold instead of on a pallet.

slop, v. t.

To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill. [1913 Webster]
To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled. [1913 Webster]

slop, v. i.

To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over. [1913 Webster]

slop, n. [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.].

Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural. Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
"There's a French salutation to your French slop." [1913 Webster]
Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

slop, v. & n.
--v. (slopped, slopping)
1 (often foll. by over) a intr. spill or flow over the edge of a vessel. b tr. allow to do this.
2 tr. make (the floor, clothes, etc.) wet or messy by slopping, spill or splash liquid on.
3 intr. (usu. foll. by over) gush; be effusive or maudlin.
--n.
1 a quantity of liquid spilled or splashed.
2 weakly sentimental language.
3 (in pl.) waste liquid, esp. dirty water or the waste contents of kitchen, bedroom, or prison vessels.
4 (in sing. or pl.) unappetizing weak liquid food.
5 Naut. a choppy sea.

Idiom

slop about move about in a slovenly manner. slop-basin Brit. a basin for the dregs of cups at table. slop out carry slops out (in prison etc.). slop-pail a pail for removing bedroom or kitchen slops.

slop, n.
1 a workman's loose outer garment.
2 (in pl.) ready-made or cheap clothing.
3 (in pl.) clothes and bedding supplied to sailors in the navy.
4 (in pl.) archaic wide baggy trousers esp. as worn by sailors.

Etymology

ME: cf. OE oferslop surplice f. Gmc

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THESAURUS

slop

asperge, bathos, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, bilge, bilgewater, bleeding heart, bolt, bones, carrion, cascade, cataract, chaff, chuckhole, clay, cloyingness, cram, culm, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, deadwood, deluge, dew, dishwater, ditchwater, douche, douse, draff, dregs, dust, engulf, filings, flood, garbage, gash, glop, gobble, goo, gumbo, gunk, guzzle, hearts-and-flowers, hog wallow, hogwash, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, husks, ingurgitate, inundate, irrigate, leavings, lees, loblolly, maudlinness, mawkishness, mire, moisten, muck, muckhole, mud, mud puddle, mudhole, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, offal, offscourings, ooze, orts, overbrim, overflow, overrun, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, overwhelm, paddle, pap, parings, plash, potsherds, pour out, pour over, puddle, rags, raspings, refuse, riffraff, romanticism, rubbish, run over, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, scurf, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, sewage, sewerage, shards, shavings, slab, slack, slag, slime, slip, slob, slobber, slog, sloppiness, slops, slosh, slough, sludge, slush, soap opera, sob story, sparge, spatter, spill, spill out, spill over, splash, splatter, splosh, splurge, sponge, spray, sprinkle, spurtle, squab, squash, stodge, stubble, submerge, swamp, swash, sweep, sweepings, sweetness and light, swill, syringe, tares, tearjerker, toil, trash, trudge, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, water, weeds, wet, wet down, whelm, wolf

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ROGET THESAURUS

slop

Uncleanness

N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.

Ejection

VB give exit, give vent to, let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out, dispatch, despatch, exhale, excern, excrete, embogue, secrete, secern, extravasate, shed, void, evacuation, emit, open the sluices, open the floodgates, turn on the tap, extrude, detrude, effuse, spend, expend, pour forth, squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop, perspire, breathe, blow, tap, draw off, bale out, lade out, let blood, broach, eject, reject, expel, discard, cut, send to coventry, boycott, chasser, banish, bounce, fire, fire out, throw, throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside, push, throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside, shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away, brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away, discharge, send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift, turn out, bundle out, throw overboard, give the sack to, send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about, strike off the roll, turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop, pack off, send away with a flea in the ear, send to Jericho, bow out, show the door to, turn out of doors, turn out of house and home, evict, oust, unhouse, unkennel, dislodge, unpeople, dispeople, depopulate, relegate, deport, empty, drain to the dregs, sweep off, clear off, clear out, clear away, suck, draw off, clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge, embowel, disbowel, disembowel, eviscerate, gut, unearth, root out, root up, averuncate, weed out, get out, eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off, exenterate, vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf, belch out, cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god, disgorge, expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber, eructate, drool, unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload, break bulk, dump, be let out, spew forth, erupt, ooze.

Water

VB be watery, reek, add water, water, wet, moisten, dilute, dip, immerse, merge, immerge, submerge, plunge, souse, duck, drown, soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench, dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge, syringe, inject, gargle.

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