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Verb: slop (slopped,slopping)  slóp
  1. Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
    "slop the milk";
    - spill, splatter
     
  2. Walk through mud or mire
    "We had to slop across the wet meadow";
    - squelch, squish, splash, splosh [informal], slosh
     
  3. Ladle clumsily
    "slop the food onto the plate"
     
  4. Feed pigs
    - swill
Noun: slop  slóp
  1. Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water, skimmed or sour milk
    - slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash
     
  2. Deep soft mud in water or slush
    "they waded through the slop";
    - mire
     
  3. (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen, bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand
    "she carried out the sink slops"
     
  4. (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
    "he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided"
     
  5. Writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
    - treacle, mush, glop [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: slops, slopped, slopping

Type of: clay, displace, feed, feedstuff, food, footslog, give, grub [informal], kai [NZ, informal], khana [Asia], lade [archaic], laden, ladle, move, mud, nosh [Brit, informal], pad, plod, provender, sentimentalism, slog, solid food, tramp, tromp [N. Amer, informal], trudge, waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product

Encyclopedia: Slop