WordNet
slop chest
n. commissary maintained aboard merchant ships to sell merchandise to the crew
Usage examples of "slop chest".
She held it out to hima ridiculous garment from the Citadel slop chest, clearly the former property of some actor or mountebank: broad bands of tarnished red and gold tinsel slashing the worn plum-covered velvet of its extravagant skirts.
Finding that some of the chartsmen and computermen played it, he had invested his tips in a set from the ship's slop chest.
It was necessary for him to hit the slop chest for dress uniforms.
He seemed a very ordinary sort of seaman, dressed in the standard clothes of the slop chest.
The purser could give you some clothes from the slop chest, if you'd like to get out of that .