SLOPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slops mean? 

• SLOPS (noun)
  The noun SLOPS has 2 senses:

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

2. cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain)

  Familiarity information: SLOPS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOPS (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 ("slops" is a kind of...):

feed; provender (food for domestic livestock)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)

 Context examples 

“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)