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UK
/slˈɒp/
]
[ US /ˈsɫɑp/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫɑp/ ]
NOUN
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(usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand
she carried out the sink slops - writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
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deep soft mud in water or slush
they waded through the slop - wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
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(usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided
VERB
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cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
splatter water
spill the milk - feed pigs
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ladle clumsily
slop the food onto the plate -
walk through mud or mire
We had to splosh across the wet meadow
How To Use slop In A Sentence
- She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
- The garden sloped gently downward to the river.
- The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
- After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction.
- The fans certainly looked like they didn't have a care in the world as they lay in their hundreds sunning themselves on the grassy slopes surrounding the stadium in the hours before the game.
- Statistical analysis for significant difference in the slope of mutant induction in the presence or absence of vanillin was performed using the f-test for comparison of slopes.
- The south slope is more gentle and ends in a marshy bay.
- Their passing was sloppy, possession was given away too easily and balls were either spilled or over carried in promising attacks.
- I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World
- We crawled along a broadish wall, with an inch or two of powdery snow on it, and then up a sloping buttress on to the flat roof of the house. Greenmantle