Slops

Definition: Slops

Slops

Noun

1. Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.

2. Cheap clothing (as issued to sailors).

Date "slops" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Slops (The) The police; originally "ecilop." "I dragged you in here and saved you, And sent out a gal for the slops; Ha! they're a comin', sir! Listen! The noise and the shoutin' stops." Sims: Ballads of Babylon (The Matron's Story). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	SLOPS. Wearing apparel and bedding used by seamen. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Slops

Synonyms: pigswill (n), pigwash (n), slop (n), swill (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Clothing	Outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; day wear, night wear, zoot suit; designer clothes; masquerade.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Slops

English words defined with "slops": Gardyloo ♦ slop basin, slop bowl, Slopwork. (references)

Specialty definitions using "slops": Birchin Lane. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A neighbor (coal miner) taking away some slops for his pigs. Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	In the little sties the pigs grunted inquiringly over the muddy remnants of the slops.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Slops" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Slops" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	95.45%	21	76,261
Lexical Verb (-s form)	4.55%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	22	N/A

Expressions using "slops": distilling slops ♦ still slops. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "slops"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		veshje e gjerë, pantallona të gjera (skirt, slacks). (various references)

Bulgarian		течна храна, моряшки завивки, моряшки постелки, моряшки дрехи, евтини готови дрехи, лигавщини (slaver), помия (dishwater, draff, hog-wash, pigwash, rinsings, slipslop, swill, wash, wish-wash), излияния (flow, gush, outpourings, romantics, slop), изпражнения (dejecta, dirt, evacuations, excrement, faeces, matter, ordure, rejectamenta, soil, stools, waste). (various references)

Czech		brynda (hole, mess, slipslop, wish-wash), šlichta (mash, mush, slipslop, swill). (various references)

Danish		vaadbaerme (distilling slops, still slops, still wash, stillage(sludge)), vådbærme (distilling slops, still wash, stillage sludge). (various references)

Dutch		spoeling (brewer'grains, cooling mud, distiller's wash, distilling slops, draff, drilling fluid, drilling mud, drilling sludge, flushing, greasy wastes, hog-wash, irrigation, lavage, mud flush, pig swill, pig-wash, scalded fodder, scavenging, still slops, still wash, stillage sludge, stillage(sludge), swill, swillings). (various references)

Finnish		likavesi (sewage). (various references)

French		rejets � retraiter (slop, slop oil), produits hors spécification (slop, slop oil), ordures, horspecs (slop, slop oil). (various references)

German		verschüttet (slopped, spills, spilt), schwärmt (lionizes, raves, rhapsodizes, romanticizes). (various references)

Greek		φθηνά ρούχα (slop), απόπλυμα (slop). (various references)

Hebrew		שפכים (sewage, swill), �"פרש�" (allocation, allowance, discharge, eccrisis, secretion). (various references)

Hungarian		érzelgés. (various references)

Italian		borlande di distilleria (distilling slops, still slops, still wash, stillage sludge, stillage(sludge)), borlanda (distilling slops, still slops, still wash, stillage(sludge)). (various references)

Manx		fliughys (humidity, wateriness, wet, wetness), driddlagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		opsslay

Portuguese		vinhaça (distilling slops, small wine, still wash, stillage sludge, thin wine). (various references)

Romanian		zoaie (dish water, wash), lãturi (dish water, hogwash, kitchen stuff, pig swill, pig's wash, slab, slop, swill, wash), buc (garbage, rubbish). (various references)

Russian		помои (dishwater, dish-water, pig's wash, pigwash). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pomije (dishwater, pig's wash, pigwash, rinsings, swill, wash), konfekcijska roba, blato (dirt, mire, mud, quagmire, slop, sludge). (various references)

Spanish		gacha (mush, thin paste), aguachirle (trifle, weak drink). (various references)

Swedish		smutsvatten, sjömanskläder, pluderhosor, billiga konfektionskläder. (various references)

Thai		เสื้อผ้า หมอน ที่นอน ผ้าห่มของกะลาสีเรือ (คำโบรา�"), เสื้อถูกๆ. (various references)

Turkish		sulu yemek (wash), ucuz hazır elbise (reach-me-downs), ucuz elbise (reach-me-down), pis su (waste water). (various references)

Turkmen		яuwundy (dust, garbage). (various references)

Ukrainian		дешевий готовий одяг. (various references)

Welsh		golchion (suds). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "slops": slipslops. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Slops" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: salopes, sllops, sloopy, slopist, slopp, Slupsk, sous, splops, usa. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "l-o-p-s-s"
	-1 letter: lops, loss, pols, slop, sols, sops.
	-2 letters: lop, ops, pol, sol, sop, sos.
	-3 letters: lo, op, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "l-o-p-s-s"
	+1 letter: sloops, slopes, splosh, spoils, spools.
	+2 letters: gospels, pistols, plessor, podsols, postals, saloops, slopers, splores, sponsal, spousal, topless.
	+3 letters: alphosis, apostils, apostles, calypsos, cesspool, closeups, cowslips, cropless, deposals, despoils, diploses, diplosis, disposal, epsilons, escalops, espousal, exposals, gossypol, haploses, haplosis, hoopless, hopeless, milksops, parasols, peploses, pistoles, plasmons, plessors, plimsols, plosions, plosives, plotless, poetless, poleless, polishes, pollists, poloists, popeless, portless, possible, possibly, psiloses, psilosis, pulsions, reposals, scallops, scollops, scopulas, sepalous, sesspool, shallops, slipouts, slipshod, slipslop, slipsole, soapless, splodges, sploshed, sploshes, spoilers, sporules, spotless, spousals, stopples, subplots, supposal, topsails, topsoils, upsilons.
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