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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

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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