slops

[ UK /slˈɒps/ ]
NOUN
  1. cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain)
  2. wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
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How To Use slops In A Sentence

  • I am not a chemist," he said, adding he believed Nzi who said the biggest problem with the slops was their smell. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • This feed would not only astonish those who talk about a “free breakfast-table,” with its silly slops and bread-stuffs; it would satisfy a sharp-set Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Wahing out slops of the past year, bcs next you will see Songgan Festival in Tailand.
  • he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided
  • There were many cesspools in the city and more in the suburbs, and slops were being emptied on to peaty land.
  • There would also have been a market for simple ready-made clothes - certainly these were produced for sailors (the "slops" supplied by the purser on board ships in the 18th C, mainly loose-fitting shirts and trousers, for those who lacked the skill or inclination to make their own). Kateelliott: Question for the Hive Mind
  • A servitor, his apron stained with particles of food and slops of wine, hurried up, his greasy, uncombed hair masking his face. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • They then take up slops, that is, obtain from the purser as many shirts, trousers, shoes, and other articles, as they can persuade the commanding-officer they are in want of; after which they desert upon the first opportunity, only to run the same rig in some other ship. The Lieutenant and Commander
  • As well as carried in the coal, made the beds, run errands, carried out the slops.
  • Originally a shelter for drovers herding their animals through the Ochil Hills, the Bein Inn, which dates from 1861, nestles in the wooded slops of Glen Farg.
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