slop bowl
One of the four components of the traditional tea set. Tea drinkers emptied their unwanted, cold tea into the slop bowl before refilling their cups with fresh, hot tea.
slop
UK /slɒp/ US /slɑp/
noun 8verb 4adj 1
Collocations
3VERB + SLOP
ate, eat, hearing, watch
SLOP + NOUN
'hallo, knight, policeman, rider, tale
PREP.
after
Definitions
noun
1
A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
2
A flip-flop.
adj
1
Being or relating to slops (cheap or ready-made clothing).
noun
1
Semi-solid-like substance; goo, paste, mud, pulp.
2
Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
3
Inferior, weak drink or semi-liquid food.
4
Human urine or excrement.
5
Domestic wastewater.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen
- slops
- swill
- pigswill
- pigwash
noun — deep soft mud in water or slush
verb — feed pigs
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
slop out
To throw out the waste from the chamberpot in a prison cell or a similar waste receptacle.
Example Bank
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All on my dick, she won't stop, yah
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Do the monkey, do the pony
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In a night spent surfing the television “datasphere” (to use another Cyberia buzzword), you can watch slop like Knight Rider 2010 (where virtual reality is a weekly plot point)
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I slopped water all over my shirt.
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a little Durham bull butted the pail and slopped him with the milk
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We slopped through paddies in 100-degree-plus heat and slept with one eye open at night.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, slop is marked as obsolete, dated. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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