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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slop
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ There has been talk of a commitment to do away with slopping out by 1994.
▪ As a result, we shall end overcrowding by 1995 and slopping out by 1994.
▪ Reference has been made to commitments about ending slopping out.
■ NOUN
water
▪ And beneath his feet Hencke could hear the terrifying noise of water beginning to slop its way through the bilges.
▪ As I looked up, I saw that water was beginning to slop in and trickle down the wall.
▪ Another step down, and the water was slopping round his ankles.
▪ As the stagnant water slopped back and forth their reflections mouthed sleepily, a hundred mouths.
▪ He left the bathroom in a terrible mess, with water slopped all over the floor and the towel sopping.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And beneath his feet Hencke could hear the terrifying noise of water beginning to slop its way through the bilges.
▪ As a result, we shall end overcrowding by 1995 and slopping out by 1994.
▪ As she slopped about in the cooling water, Jess pondered over this peculiarity.
▪ It is wrong to slop and make messes that others have to clear up behind one.
▪ Jan slopped two tea bags into the bin and scooped sugar into her cup.
▪ Now it passed even closer and made a circle, so tight that the wash slopped on to our deck.
▪ There has been talk of a commitment to do away with slopping out by 1994.
▪ With each wave a gush of water spurted up into your armpit and slopped into the cabin.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bucket
▪ Men who had emptied their slop buckets were returning to their cells.
▪ There was a table and two wooden chairs at the far end by the slop buckets.
▪ Clinton sat down beside the slop bucket and smiled at the two men.
▪ So the bread was deposited in the slop bucket.
▪ But not as sick as Vicky, who every morning now staggered up to retch helplessly into the slop bucket.
▪ Robinson smiled as he lifted the plastic cover from the slop bucket to reveal a lump of excrement.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'm not eating that slop.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Behind the slop was a grass back.
▪ Drawbacks are the introduction of a bit more slop in the system and the potential for reduced access in tight spots.
▪ Happy as a hog in slop, is what I am.
▪ What you get: automatic, maximum traction in all off-and on-road slop for the very lazy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slop

Slop \Slop\, n. [AS. slop a frock or over-garment, fr. sl?pan to slip, to slide; akin to Icel. sloppr a thin garment; cf. OHG. slouf a garment. Cf. Slip, v. i.]

  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.

Slop

Slop \Slop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Slopping.]

  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

Slop \Slop\, v. i. To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.

Slop

Slop \Slop\, n. [OE. sloppe a pool; akin to As. sloppe, slyppe, the sloppy droppings of a cow; cf. AS. sl?pan to slip, and E. slip, v.i. Cf. Cowslip.]

  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 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slop

c.1400, "mudhole," probably from Old English -sloppe "dung" (in plant name cusloppe, literally "cow dung"), related to slyppe "slime" (see slip (v.)). Meaning "semiliquid food" first recorded 1650s; that of "refuse liquid of any kind, household liquid waste" (usually slops) is from 1815. Meaning "affected or sentimental material" is from 1866.

slop

late 14c., "loose outer garment," probably from Middle Dutch slop, of uncertain origin, corresponding to words in Old Norse and perhaps in Old English. Sense extended generally to "clothing, ready-made clothing" (1660s), usually in plural slops. Hence, also, slop-shop "shop where ready-made clothes are sold" (1723).

slop

"to spill carelessly" (transitive), 1550s, from slop (n.1). Intransitive sense from 1746. Related: Slopped; slopping.

Wiktionary
slop

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context now historical English) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall. 2 (context in the plural obsolete English) Loose trousers. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context uncountable English) A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste. 2 scraps used as food for pigs 3 (context dated English) Human urine or excrement. 4 Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot. 5 (context chiefly plural English) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves. 2 (context transitive English) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid. 3 (context transitive English) In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot. 4 (context transitive English) to feed pigs

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WordNet
slop

  1. n. wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk [syn: slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash]

  2. [also: slopping, slopped]

slop

  1. v. cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water" [syn: spill, splatter]

  2. walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow" [syn: squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh]

  3. ladle clumsily; "slop the food onto the plate"

  4. feed pigs [syn: swill]

  5. [also: slopping, slopped]

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Wikipedia
Slop (remote control)

The technical term to slop is Backlash.

Slop is the freedom of play in the levers and control systems of a model helicopter which results in it being difficult or unpredictable to fly.

Slop can come from loose ball links, worn servo gear trains or loose output shafts, damaged bearings, or looseness or lack of rigidity of any supporting part of the airframe.

Slop

Slop or SLOP may refer to:

  • Slop is the common name for household food scraps when they are fed to pigs
  • Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure, in aviation, a procedure for avoiding collisions
  • Slop (remote control), loose play in controls for model helicopters
  • Self-selecting opinion poll, a poll or survey where the results reflect those individuals who choose to participate
  • Slop (S..L OP) has been used as military slang for Special Operations Cohorts
  • Doctor Slop, a character in the 1759 novel Tristram Shandy
  • Jan Janz Slop (1643–1727), painter of the Dutch Golden Age
  • Slop(s) is/are the residue of seawater washing of tanks in oil tankers, see crude oil washing
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Usage examples of "slop".

There I will return your fare money to you, and have you deposited on the beach like a bucketful of kitchen slops.

She would smear the liquid froth into careful position, slopping astonishing tones in suggestive patches and scabs, where it coagulated quickly into shape.

Thee to pipe our shipmates aboard with all fitting ceremony, and to kit them out in proper slops, and to mess them always on dandy duff, and to give them only easy duty and daytime watches, and to cuss or cat them only seldom.

Even half-deflated, it could slop along at a fair clip, but he reached the woods with yards to spare and stood once more encaged by the gigantic bars of the pines.

Other sounds were audible, too - the slop of petrol in a half-empty jerrican, the drip of moisture from my oilskins, the rattle of tins badly stowed as the dinghy wallowed with a quick, unpredictable movement.

He still had the cap in his hand, and black avgas smoked where it glugged from the spout of the jerrican to go slopping toward the lip of the bank.

Love, as always, to my regular, and very special, crew--Owen Laster, Larry Mirkin, and Beverley Slopen, and to Warren, Shannon, and Annie.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As always, a special thank you to Owen Laster, Beverley Slopen, and Larry Mirkin, good friends as well as trusted advisors.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Once again, my thanks and gratitude to Owen Laster, Larry Mirkin, and Beverley Slopen for their continuing friendship, insight, advice, and unfailing generosity of spirit.

One of the pigs was nibbling away industriously at one of their voodoo dolls, or whatever they were, and in the foreground was one of the little figures itself, washed clean of ifith and slop.

We made love--on the couch, and on the floor, at one point rolling against the coffee table and slopping our coffee and Sambuca onto the marble surface.

As they walked past, each prisoner would hold out their small metal bowl, and the sordes would plop a spoonful of gray, sticky slop into the bowl.

Deprived of those walks, he followed the tradition of artisanal ingenuity in the Bastille by adapting into an improvised megaphone the metal funnel used to deposit his urine and slops into the moat.

Even as the bartender lurns away lo bellow rudely at two droid-accompanied humans slopped by ihe deleclor, I sip slowly, savoring the water.

So when Sherkaner slopped exotherm sludge into the airsnow, there was a burst of vapor, and then a tiny glow that faded as the still-liquid droplet sank and cooled.