slop-over

[ slop-oh-ver ]

noun

1. an act or instance of spilling or slopping over.
2. an amount spilled; spillover; overflow.

Word History and Origins

Origin of slop-over¹

1905–10, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase slop over

Example Sentences

But the crew were temporarily occupied by what they called “a slop-over event”: a rogue ember had leaped across a trail that acted as a firebreak at one edge of the burn, sparking a half-acre blaze so hot that standing within a few feet of it made my chest hurt.

From The New Yorker

It took the team more than an hour to fully contain the slop-over.

From The New Yorker

When offered too late it turns into something else, a thank-you made soggy by the slop-over of guilt and apology.

From Time Magazine Archive

"My motive in everything I was saying or certainly thinking at the time was not to try to cover up a criminal action but ... to be sure that as far as any slip-over—or should I say slop-over, I think, would be a better word—any slop-over in a way that would damage innocent people."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Wal," he said, "he's as good anyhow as slop-over soldiers."

From Project Gutenberg