slop
/slɔp/
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Definition
Noun:
- Excessively sentimental writing or music: Refers to art, literature, or music that is overly sweet, emotional, or lacking in substance.
- (Usually plural) Unappetizing, watery food or drink: Describes weak, poor-quality, or leftover food, often of a liquid or semi-liquid consistency.
- (Usually plural) Waste liquid: Refers to dirty water or liquid waste from a kitchen, bathroom, or chamber pot.
- Deep, soft mud or slush: A mass of wet, soft, and often dirty mud or slush.
- Wet feed for animals: A mixture, often for pigs, consisting of kitchen scraps mixed with water or milk.
Verb:
- To feed slop to pigs: To give this wet mixture of food to pigs.
- To spill or splash clumsily: To cause a liquid to spill or flow over the edge of a container, often in a careless or messy way.
- To walk through mud or mire: To walk with difficulty through wet, muddy ground.
- To cause a liquid to run out: To pour or allow a liquid substance to flow from a container, typically in an uncontrolled manner.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- I can't stand that movie; it's just sentimental slop. (Referring to overly sweet content.)
- The prisoners were fed nothing but cold slops. (Referring to unappetizing food.)
- She emptied the kitchen slops into the drain. (Referring to waste water.)
- After the storm, the path was pure slop. (Referring to deep mud.)
- The farmer prepared the slop for the hogs. (Referring to animal feed.)
Verb:
- He slopped the pigs every morning at dawn. (Referring to feeding animals.)
- Be careful not to slop the soup when you carry the bowl. (Referring to spilling clumsily.)
- We had to slop through the flooded field to get home. (Referring to walking through mud.)
- He slopped the milk from the pail as he ran. (Referring to causing a liquid to run out.)
Advanced Usage
- "Slop over" (phrasal verb): To spill over the edge of a container; by extension, to express emotion in an excessive, unrestrained way.
- The water in the bucket slopped over with each step.
- Her speech slopped over with sentimentality, making some listeners uncomfortable.
Variants and Related Words
- Sloppy (adj): Messy, untidy, or careless; also, overly sentimental.
- He did a sloppy job on his homework.
- I dislike sloppy romantic comedies.
- Slop basin (n): A bowl for holding waste liquid, such as tea dregs, at a dining table.
- Slop pail (n): A pail used for carrying waste liquids.
Synonyms
- Noun (sentimental art): Schmaltz, mush, sentimentality.
- Noun (food): Swill, gruel, scraps.
- Noun (mud): Mire, ooze, slush.
- Verb (spill): Spill, splash, slosh.
- Verb (walk): Trudge, slog, plod.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Slop about/around: To move or splash around in a liquid or mud in a careless, noisy way.
- The children were slopping about in the puddles.
- Slop out (chiefly British): To empty chamber pots or slop buckets, especially in an institution like a prison.
- Prisoners had to slop out every morning.
Related Idioms
- A slop job: A task done in a very careless or messy manner.
- The painter did a real slop job on the walls; they'll need redoing.
- Slop bowl: As a variant of "slop basin," this can sometimes be used metaphorically to describe a repository for unwanted or inferior things.
Noun
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
- (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
- he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided
- (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
- 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
Verb
- feed pigs
- ladle clumsily
- slop the food onto the plate
- walk through mud or mire
- We had to splosh across the wet meadow
- cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
- spill the milk
- splatter water