slop

Meanings

Noun

• A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
• A rubber thong sandal.
• See slops.
• Liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud.
• Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
• Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
• Domestic liquid waste; household wastewater.
• Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
• Human urine or excrement.
• A policeman.

Verb

• To spill or dump liquid, especially over the edge of a container when it moves.
• To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
• In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
• To feed pigs.
• To make one's way through soggy terrain.

Related

Similar words

• see list in flip-flop
• pig food: slops, hogwash, swill

Origin

• From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur.
• Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in cūsloppe), related to slip.
• Alteration of ecilop, from back slang for police.