slop-shop
Definition
- Noun:
- A shop selling cheap ready-made clothing: "slop-shop" refers to a retail establishment that sells inexpensive, mass-produced garments, typically of low quality, often intended for sailors, laborers, or the lower classes.
Usage Examples
- (The shop sold cheap, ready-made clothes for workers.)
- (Such shops specialized in inexpensive, mass-produced clothing.)
Advanced Usage
- "Slop-shop trade": the business of selling cheap ready-made clothing, often associated with poor working conditions and low wages.
- The slop-shop trade exploited immigrant labor in overcrowded urban centers. (The industry of cheap clothing manufacturing.)
Variants and Related Words
Slop (n): cheap, ready-made clothing, especially for sailors; also, loose-fitting garments.
- The sailor's slop was rough and poorly stitched. (His cheap clothing was of low quality.)
Slopseller (n): a person who sells cheap ready-made clothing.
- The slopseller offered a discount on out-of-season coats. (A vendor of inexpensive garments.)
Synonyms
- Ready-made clothing store: a shop selling pre-manufactured garments (as opposed to custom tailoring).
- Cheap clothing outlet: a retail business offering low-cost attire.
Related Idioms
- "Fit for a slop-shop": describing something of very poor quality or shoddy workmanship.
- That suit is so badly sewn, it's fit for a slop-shop. (It is of extremely low quality.)