slops
- n wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
- n cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain)
- n wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
- n deep soft mud in water or slush
- n (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 - n (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided - n writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
- v cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
- v walk through mud or mire
- v ladle clumsily
- v feed pigs
- His character is as shapeless as the slops they issued him at the prison gate, and his condition as hopeless as the five shillings in his pocket.
- But there's an element of three-card monte here: money slops from pot to pot, and the totals remain unchanged.
- But the mistress of the house soon loses patience with a "damn fool Kaffir" who can't tell mushroom soup from slops.