slop
noun/slɒp/
/slɑːp/
[uncountable] (also slops [plural])
- waste food, sometimes fed to animals
- liquid or partly liquid waste, for example urine or dirty water from baths
- a slop bucket
- She emptied the slops into the gutter.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘to spill, splash’). Early use of the noun denoted ‘slushy mud’, the first of the current senses (‘unappetizing food’) dating from the mid 17th cent.
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