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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.
- Tumbling down slopes near Wawona at the south end of the park, Chilnualna Creek - at its fattest and fastest this time of year - creates a series of foaming cascades around giant boulders.
- Many of the bays and inlets are simply beautiful and consist of rock or sand, sometimes dropping away dramatically into 50 feet of water, at other times sloping gently in to shallows of just a few feet.
- 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
- Each of the plurality of flukes may be provided with an inwardly sloped bill segment at a distal end of the fluke.
- Winter adds snowboarding, ice-skating, and cross-country and downhill skiing on the resort's groomed trails and ski slopes.
- 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.
