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adj
Being or relating to slops (cheap or ready-made clothing).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A flip-flop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa, in-plural
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Synonyms: beach sandal, chancla, go-ahead, jandal, plugger, slop, thong, zori
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any semisolid substance; goo, paste, pulp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Any semisolid substance; goo, paste, pulp.
Soft, liquid mud or snow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: slush, mire
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noun
Liquid carelessly spilled upon a surface; a soiled spot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any inferior, weak, or unappetizing drink or semi-liquid food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
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noun
Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
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Synonyms: hogwash, swill
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Human urine or excrement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
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noun
Domestic wastewater.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
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noun
Fellatio.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: sloppy toppy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Content or entertainment which is worthless, or produced and consumed mindlessly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable
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Synonyms: garbage, tripe, rubbish, cheapie, crapola, gash, hunk of junk, load of bull, load of crap, load of shit, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of junk, piece of shit, piece of trash, pile of crap, pile of shit, schlock, slop
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Content or entertainment which is worthless, or produced and consumed mindlessly.
Junk output from generative artificial intelligence published in large quantities, posing as human-made content.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable
Qualifier: artificial intelligence
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Synonyms: garbage, tripe, rubbish, cheapie, crapola, gash, hunk of junk, load of bull, load of crap, load of shit, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of junk, piece of shit, piece of trash, pile of crap, pile of shit, schlock, slop, AI slop, pink slime
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spam, nontent
noun
A dance popular in the 1960s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: preceded by definite article
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noun
A policeman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
Qualifier: costermongers
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Synonyms: 5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler, blue meanie, bobby, body snatcher, bogey, boy in blue, bull, bullyman, buttons, centenier, charpering omi, chazzer, cobbler, cop, copper, cozzer, cracker, crusher, crowns, dibble, fed, filth, finest, finger, five-o, flatfoot, flatty, fuzz, garda, gendarme, glowie, guardian of the peace, harman, harman-beck, Inspector Knacker, jack, jackboot, jake, John Law, John Q. Law, Johnny Hopper, lawman, mee-maw, monarch, Mr Plod, mutton shunter, nuthook, oinker, Officer Friendly, Old Bill, one-time, PC Plod, pig, piggy, peeler, plod, police, police officer, policeman, policeperson, polis, po-po, raw lobster, roller, rozzer, scufter, slop, swine, statie, twelve, tyre biter, unboiled lobster, walloper, wooden-top
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verb
To spill or dump liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: games
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verb
To feed pigs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To make one's way through soggy terrain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: treacle, mush, glop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sentimentalism
noun
wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: feed, provender
noun
(usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: food, solid food
noun
(usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product
noun
deep soft mud in water or slush
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: mire
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mud, clay
verb
feed pigs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: swill
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: feed, give
verb
cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: spill, splatter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: move, displace
verb
ladle clumsily
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ladle, lade, laden
verb
walk through mud or mire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *slewbh- Proto-Germanic *slup-? Old English *slop Middle English slop English slop From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).
Etymology tree Old English *sloppe Middle English *sloppe? English slop Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in cūsloppe), alternative form of Old English slyppe. Related to slip.
Alteration of ecilop, back slang for police.
Across languages
74 source translations are retained for this English entry.
