Crossword-Solution: SLOP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Slop | n. | Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot. |
| Slop | n. | Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural. |
| Slop | n. | Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc. |
| Slop | v. t. | To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill. |
| Slop | v. t. | To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled. |
| Slop | v. i. | To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over. |
| Slop | v. i. | Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock. |
| Slop | v. i. | A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural. |
| Slop | v. i. | Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SLOP | anagram | LOPS, OLPS, POLS, PSOL |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SLOP (5)
All three give glimpses of the shops of grocers, block-makers, slop-sellers, and ship-chandlers, around the doors of which are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts, and such other wharf-rats as haunt the Wapping of a seaport.
The terms `tolerance' and {slop} are also used, though these usually indicate a one-sided leeway, such as a buffer that is made larger than necessary because one isn't sure exactly how large it needs to be, and it is better to waste a little space than to lose completely for not having enough.
Shops with nautical instruments in the windows, rope and paint sellers, and slop shops with long rows of oilskins dangling from hooks, all proclaimed the neighborhood of the docks.
Henry, I maun premeese, is a chief; the humblest Samoan recoils from emptying slops as you would from cheating at cards; now the last nights of our bad time when we had seven down together, it was enough to have made anybody laugh or cry to see Henry going the rounds with a slop-bucket and going inside the mosquito net of each of the sick, Protestant and Catholic alike, to pray with them.
Tawno had on a clean white slop, with a nearly new black beaver, with very broad rims, and the nap exceedingly long.
Quotes with SLOP (3)
In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them…
My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. I called it inedible slop.
Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps, he means there aren't many 'human beings' left to look, see, and understand well enough for one to ask and one to give. Everyone busy, running, jumping, there's no time to study one another. But I guess that's bilge and hogwash, slop and sentiment.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 592 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).