[
UK
/slˈɒps/
]
NOUN
- cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain)
- 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.