SLOP (slopped, slopping)

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Irregular inflected forms: slopped    , slopping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does slop mean? 

• SLOP (noun)
  The noun SLOP has 5 senses:

1. wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk

2. deep soft mud in water or slush

3. (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand

4. (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink

5. writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental

  Familiarity information: SLOP used as a noun is common.

• SLOP (verb)
  The verb SLOP has 4 senses:

1. cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container

2. walk through mud or mire

3. ladle clumsily

4. feed pigs

  Familiarity information: SLOP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

pigswill; pigwash; slop; slops; swill

Hypernyms ("slop" is a kind of...):

feed; provender (food for domestic livestock)

Derivation:

slop (feed pigs)

slop (ladle clumsily)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deep soft mud in water or slush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

mire; slop

Context example:

they waded through the slop

Hypernyms ("slop" is a kind of...):

clay; mud (water soaked soil; soft wet earth)

Derivation:

sloppy ((of soil) soft and watery)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Context example:

she carried out the sink slops

Hypernyms ("slop" is a kind of...):

waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Context example:

he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided

Hypernyms ("slop" is a kind of...):

food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

glop; mush; slop; treacle

Hypernyms ("slop" is a kind of...):

sentimentalism (the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form)

Derivation:

sloppy (excessively or abnormally emotional)

• SLOP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they slop    ... he / she / it slops   
Past simple: slopped   
Past participle: slopped   
-ing form: slopping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

slop; spill; splatter

Context example:

splatter water

Hypernyms (to "slop" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

disgorge; shed; spill (cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over)

run out; spill (flow, run or fall out and become lost)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

The women slop water into the bowl

Sense 2

Meaning:

Walk through mud or mire

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

slop; slosh; splash; splosh; squelch; squish

Context example:

We had to splosh across the wet meadow

Hypernyms (to "slop" is one way to...):

footslog; pad; plod; slog; tramp; trudge (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Ladle clumsily

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

slop the food onto the plate

Hypernyms (to "slop" is one way to...):

lade; laden; ladle (remove with or as if with a ladle)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

slop (wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Feed pigs

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

slop; swill

Hypernyms (to "slop" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

slop (wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk)

 Context examples 

There, don’t slop it about!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My stars!” said she, “what shall I do to keep Frederick from seeing all this slopping about?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“And see that you serve no more slops,” was his parting injunction.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Master Micawber was hardly visible in a Guernsey shirt, and the shaggiest suit of slops I ever saw; and the children were done up, like preserved meats, in impervious cases.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)