What does slop mean?

Definitions for slop
slɒpslop

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwashnoun

    wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk

  2. slop, mirenoun

    deep soft mud in water or slush

    "they waded through the slop"

  3. slopnoun

    (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. slopnoun

    (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink

    "he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided"

  5. treacle, mush, slop, glopverb

    writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental

  6. spill, slop, splatterverb

    cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container

    "spill the milk"; "splatter water"

  7. squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slopverb

    walk through mud or mire

    "We had to splosh across the wet meadow"

  8. slopverb

    ladle clumsily

    "slop the food onto the plate"

  9. slop, swillverb

    feed pigs

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Slopnoun

    Mean and vile liquor of any kind. Generally some nauseous or useless medicinal liquor.

    Etymology: from the verb.

    The sick husband here wanted for neither slops nor doctors. Roger L'Estrange.

    But thou, whatever slops she will have bought,
    Be thankful. John Dryden, Juvenal.

  2. Slopnoun

    Trowsers; open breeches.

    Etymology: slop , Saxon; sloove , Dutch, a covering.

    What said Mr. Dombledon about the sattin for my short cloak and slops? William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

  3. To Slopverb

    To drink grosly and greedily.

    Etymology: from lap, lop, slop.

ChatGPT

  1. slop

    Slop generally refers to leftover or waste food given to animals or a watery form of food. It can also refer to any form of liquid waste, muck or slush. Additionally, it can denote careless, hasty, or messy work.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slopnoun

    water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot

  2. Slopnoun

    mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural

  3. Slopnoun

    dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc

  4. Slopverb

    to cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill

  5. Slopverb

    to spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled

  6. Slopverb

    to overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over

  7. Slopverb

    any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock

  8. Slopverb

    a loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural

  9. Slopverb

    ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings

  10. 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.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Slop

    slop, n. water carelessly spilled: a puddle: mean liquor or liquid food: (pl.) dirty water.—v.t. to soil by letting a liquid fall upon:—pr.p. slop′ping; pa.p. slopped.—ns. Slop′-bā′sin, -bowl, a basin for slops, esp. for the dregs of tea and coffee cups at table; Slop′-dash, weak cold tea, &c.: Slop′-pail, a pail for collecting slops; Slop′piness.—adj. Slop′py, wet: muddy. [A.S. sloppe, slyppe, cow-droppings—slúpan, to slip.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. slop

    1. A one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions. For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again. When discrete quantities are involved, slop is often introduced to avoid the possibility of being on the losing side of a fencepost error. 2. The percentage of ‘extra’ code generated by a compiler over the size of equivalent assembler code produced by hand-hacking; i.e., the space (or maybe time) you lose because you didn't do it yourself. This number is often used as a measure of the goodness of a compiler; slop below 5% is very good, and 10% is usually acceptable. With modern compiler technology, esp. on RISC machines, the compiler's slop may actually be negative; that is, humans may be unable to generate code as good. This is one of the reasons assembler programming is no longer common.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slop in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of slop in a Sentence

  1. Len Lichtenfeld:

    Slip on a long-sleeve shirt, slap on a wide-brimmed hat, slop on the sunscreen, and use UV-protective sunglasses that wrap around the eyes when out in the sun, there are a number of sun safety strategies that are effective.

  2. Todd Abel:

    It did get across 77. We did... get aircraft in the air, and to try to catch this, what we call a slop over. It slopped over our containment line.

  3. J. A. Spender:

    'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

  4. Sydney Smith:

    He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

  5. Todd Abel:

    They were very successful until early this morning, it did get across 77. We did... get aircraft in the air, and to try to catch this, what we call a slop over. It slopped over our containment line.

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