slop

¹

[ slop ]

verb (used with object)

, slopped, slop·ping.

1. to spill or splash (liquid).
2. to spill liquid upon.

   Synonyms: spatter, slosh, splash

3. to feed slop to (pigs or other livestock).

verb (used without object)

, slopped, slop·ping.

1. to spill or splash liquid (sometimes followed by about ):

   The children happily slopped about in the puddles.

2. (of liquid) to spill or splash out of a container (usually followed by over ):

   The milk slopped over the rim of the glass.

3. to walk or go through mud, slush, or water.
4. Informal. to be unduly effusive or sentimental; gush (usually followed by over ).
5. to move in an idle, lazy, casual, or slovenly manner (usually followed by around or about ):

   to spend the weekend slopping around the house.

noun

1. a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
2. badly cooked or unappetizing food or drink.
3. bran from bolted cornmeal mixed with an equal part of water and used as a feed for swine and other livestock.
4. any similar, watery feed; swill.
5. Often slops.
   1. the dirty water, liquid refuse, etc., of a household or the like.
   2. tasteless or unappetizing soup, stew, or drink.
6. kitchen refuse; swill.
7. liquid mud.
8. slops, Distilling. the mash remaining after distilling.

slop

²

[ slop ]

noun

1. slops,
   1. clothing, bedding, etc., supplied to sailors from the ship's stores.
   2. cheap, ready-made clothing in general.
   3. short, baggy trousers, worn by men, especially sailors, in the 16th and 17th centuries.
2. a loose-fitting overgarment, as a tunic or smock.

slop

¹

/ slɒp /

verb

1. whenintr, often foll by about to cause (liquid) to splash or spill or (of liquid) to splash or spill
2. tr to splash liquid upon
3. intr; foll by along, through, etc to tramp (through) mud or slush
4. tr to feed slop or swill to

   to slop the pigs

5. tr to ladle or serve, esp clumsily
6. informal.
   intrfoll byover to be unpleasantly effusive

noun

1. a puddle of spilt liquid
2. plural wet feed, esp for pigs, made from kitchen waste, etc
3. plural waste food or liquid refuse
4. plural the beer, cider, etc, spilt from a barrel while being drawn
5. often plural the residue left after spirits have been distilled
6. informal.
   often plural liquid or semiliquid food of low quality
7. soft mud, snow, etc
8. informal.
   gushing speech or writing

slop

²

/ slɒp /

noun

1. plural sailors' clothing and bedding issued from a ship's stores
2. any loose article of clothing, esp a smock
3. plural men's wide knee breeches worn in the 16th century
4. plural shoddy manufactured clothing

Other Words From

• un·slopped adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of slop¹

First recorded in 1400–50; Middle English noun sloppe “mud hole,” Old English -sloppe (in cūsloppe cowslip, literally, “cow slime”); akin to slip ³; the verb is derivative of the noun

Origin of slop²

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English slop(pe), slope “loose outer garment,” Old English -slop (in oferslop “overgarment, surplice”); compare Middle Dutch overslop, Old Norse yfirsloppr

Word History and Origins

Origin of slop¹

C14: probably from Old English -sloppe in cūsloppe cowslip ; see slip ³

Origin of slop²

Old English oferslop surplice; related to Old Norse slopps gown, Middle Dutch slop

Example Sentences

The people jokingly called it pig slop.

From Los Angeles Times

Mark Zuckerberg is not interested in compensating you after taking all the photos, videos, and posts that made his company so successful and valuable; there’re always more slop for the trough.

From Slate

If everyone just accepted this, Congress could’ve taken care of its one piece of business in a day, and then returned home to eat slop at diners or milk goats or whatever it is they do to get reelected.

From Slate

The Trump-rally shooting, however, occurred against the backdrop of a fractured digital environs flooded with poorly regulated social networks, high-quality videos and livestreams, sophisticated disinformation operations, artificial intelligence slop, and easily edited, easily transmitted memes that were posted and reposted and reshared across Instagram, TikTok, X, Truth Social, and beyond.

From Slate

One is to inform the platform about what we like or what riles us up so that the company running the platform can serve us the right kind of slop to keep us at the trough and sell us to advertisers.

From Slate

Related Words

• slosh