slop
verb
[ slɒp ]
• (of a liquid) spill or flow over the edge of a container, typically as a result of careless handling.
• "water slopped over the edge of the sink"
• dress in an untidy or casual manner.
• "at weekends he would slop about in his oldest clothes"
Similar:
laze (about),
laze (around),
lounge (about),
lounge (around),
do nothing,
loll (about),
loll (around),
loaf (about),
loaf (around),
slouch (about),
slouch (around),
vegetate,
hang around,
hang about,
veg out,
mooch about,
mooch around,
slummock around,
bum around,
bat around,
lollygag,
• (especially in prison) empty the contents of a chamber pot.
• "the indignity of slopping out"
• feed slops to (an animal).
• "they think a farmer's wife spends all her time slopping hogs"
• speak or write in a sentimentally effusive manner; gush.
• "she slopped over her dog"
slop
noun
• waste water from a kitchen, bathroom, or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.
• "sink slops"
• sentimental language or material.
• "country music is not all commercial slop"
• a choppy sea.
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘to spill, splash’): probably related to slip3. Early use of the noun denoted ‘slushy mud’, the first of the current senses (‘unappetizing food’) dating from the mid 17th century.
slop
noun
• a workman's loose outer garment.
• wide, baggy trousers common in the 16th and early 17th centuries, especially as worn by sailors.
Origin:
late Middle English (in slop2 (sense 1)): from the second element of Old English oferslop ‘surplice’, of Germanic origin.
