slops
- 1Plural of slop. Often used for food scraps that are given to pigs.
We feed the kitchen slops to the pigs every night.
The bucket of slops by the back door smelled awful.
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- 2Third-person singular simple present of slop. Use it after he, she, it, or one person's name.
My little brother always slops milk on the table.
Every evening Grandpa slops the pigs before dinner.
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- 3Plural of slop. In South Africa, rubber sandals held on by a strap between the toes.
Pack your slops for the beach this weekend.
He walked to the shop in his old slops.
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- 4Pants that sailors wore mostly in the 1700s, ending below the knee or above the ankle.
The museum has a pair of old sailor's slops in a glass case.
The sailors rolled up their slops to wash the deck.
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Less common meanings
- 5Clothes and bedding given out to sailors.
The new sailors lined up to collect their slops.
The slops were kept in a big chest below deck.
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- 6Pants that are loose and do not fit tightly.
He wore a pair of loose slops tied with a cord at the waist.
Chrysippus said that some Philosophers would in open view of all men shew a dozen of tumbling-tricks, yea, without any slops or breeches, for a dozen of olives.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, The EssayesHere, slops means loose pants.Note
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slops is a form of slop
slop, noun: A soft, wet, messy substance like mud or goo, or spilled liquid and the dirty mark it leaves. Full entry
- Forms
- slopslops plural
- Spelling
- slop → slops: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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