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Definition: Slop |
SlopNoun1. Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk. Verb1. Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water". 2. Walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow". 3. Ladle clumsily; "slop the food onto the plate". 4. Feed pigs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Slop n. 1. A one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions. For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again. When discrete quantities are involved, slop is often introduced to avoid the possibility of being on the losing side of a fencepost error. 2. The percentage of `extra' code generated by a compiler over the size of equivalent assembler code produced by hand-hacking; i.e., the space (or maybe time) you lose because you didn't do it yourself. This number is often used as a measure of the goodness of a compiler; slop below 5% is very good, and 10% is usually acceptable. With modern compiler technology, esp. on RISC machines, the compiler's slop may actually be _negative_; that is, humans may be unable to generate code as good. This is one of the reasons assembler programming is no longer common. Source: Jargon File. |
Chemical Industry | A term loosely used to denote odds and ends of oil produced in the plant, which must be rerun or further processed in order to make them suitable for use. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Slop (Dr.). A choleric physician in Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Dr. Slop. Sir John Stoddart, M.D., a choleric physician who assailed Napoleon most virulently in The Times, of which he was editor. (1773-1856.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. The entry, passage, or main working gallery of a coal seam that dips at an angle. See also:incline b. Inside slope. c. See gradient. d. An inclined passage driven from the dip of a coal vein. CF:slant When not open at one end to the surface, it is known as an inside slope. See also:incline; plane. e. The inclination of a mine roadway or coal seam f. The main working gallery or entry of a coal seam that dips at an angle and along which mine cars are hauled g. An entrance to a mine driven down through an inclined coal seam; also, a mine having such an entrance. An inside slope is a passage in the mine driven through the seam by which coal is brought up from a lower level h. In a mining statute or in mining parlance, an inclined way, passage, or opening used for the same purpose as a shaft. Sometimes used to embrace the main haulage passageway, whether inclined or level i. The degree of inclination to the horizontal. Usually expressed as a ratio, such as 1:25, indicating one unit rise in 25 units of horizontal distance; or in a decimal fraction (0.04); degrees (2 degrees 18'); or percent (4%). It is sometimes expressed as steep, moderate, gentle, mild, flat, etc. Also called gradient j. In surface mining, the steepest possible slope of an excavation that is consistent with safety of working. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SLOP. Tea. How the blowens lush the slop. How the wenches drink tea!. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SLOP | English | Standard Listen Output Programm | Computing |
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Synonyms: SlopSynonyms: pigswill (n), pigwash (n), slops (n), slosh (v), spill (v), splash (v), splatter (v), splosh (v), squelch (v), squish (v), swill (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind). |
Uncleanness | Dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle. |
Water | Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Slop |
| English words defined with "slop": Overslop ♦ Slopping, Spilth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "slop": Doctor Slop ♦ In the pocket ♦ NAPHTHA-WASHING-SYSTEM OPERATOR ♦ Partington ♦ SLOP SELLER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "slop": Slipslop. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But no relationships, no chance any will slop over into a case (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Patrick Cowsert uses clinometer to determine percentage of slop for soils map work in Sarpy Co. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Neighbors take home slop for pig, also any extra corn. Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pipe for waste water" by Kim Heisler Commentary: "Slop pipe. Schmutzwasser means waste water." |
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 | Water; car wash; garden hose; bathe; bespatter; broadcast; dabble; dash; douse; drench; drown; get wet; moisten; paddle; plash; plunge; shower; slop; slosh; soak; sop; spatter; splatter; spray; spread; sprinkle; squirt; squirt; strew; throw; wade; wallow. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Sydney Smith | He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. |
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| "Slop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 56.52% of the time. "Slop" is used about 46 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 (singular) | 56.52% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 30.43% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.04% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "slop": slop about ♦ slop around ♦ slop basin ♦ slop bowl ♦ slop chest ♦ slop jar ♦ slop molding ♦ slop out ♦ slop over ♦ slop pail ♦ slop shop ♦ slop up ♦ slop water over a flower. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "slop": slop-basin, slop-bucket, slop-girl, slop-out, slop-pail, slop-sellers, slop-shop, slop-slop-slopping, slop-work. | |
Ending with "slop": slip-slop. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
slop sink | 10 |
slap slip slop | 9 |
slop | 7 |
cosmic slop | 6 |
razorback site slop | 4 |
shot slop | 4 |
cosmic slop shop | 3 |
jar slop | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "slop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sqotë (mire, slobber, slush, snowbroth), pellgaçe, përhap (bruit, delate, develop, diffuse, dilate, disseminate, distribute, introduce, let out, permeate, promulgate, propagate, radiate, spread, start, Ted, transmit), llucë (beastliness, mire, mud, muddiness, slime, slob, sludge, slush), derdh (discharge, disgorge, dump, effuse, ejaculate, eject, empty out, escape, found, outpour, pay in, pour, pour off, pour out, reject, run, scatter, shed, spill, strew, tap, tip off, upset). (various references) | |
Arabic | مياه قذرة, قعر الفنجان, غطاء المائدة (cloth, spread), تمرغ بالوحل, تسكع (gad about, hang about, hang around, idling, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, meander, mess around, mooch, mosey, muck about, perambulate, perambulation, potter, putter, range, roam, slouch, traipse, tramp), تخطى الحد, تدفق (affluence, afflux, bubble, discharge, drift, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, influx, inrush, issue, jet, onrush, outbreak, outflow, outpouring, pour, roll, shoot, shoot up, spirt, spout, spurt, stream, surge, throng), تباطأ (dawdle, decelerate, lag, linger, slow), سكب (casting, decant, empty, infuse, infusion, melt down, mould, pour, pouring out, render, shed, slosh), خليط من الطعام, إندلق (spill), أكل بنهم (cram, stuff, tuck, tuck in, wolf), شراب (beverage, drink, drinkable, syrup), دفق (afflux, effluence, effluent, flow, flux, inflow, inflowing, influx, outflow, outpouring, pour, pump, race, river, stream, well). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разлята течност, разливам (diffuse, spill), работен комбинезон (smock), фанте, широка връхна дреха, кал (dirt, mire, muck, mud, ooze, slime, slob), локва (hag, plash, pool, puddle), полицай (bluebottle, bull, constable, cop, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, grass, gumshoe, jemadar, patrolman, peace officer, peeler, pendant, peon, pig, pointsman, police officer, policeman, rozzer, runner, shamus, trap), плисвам (dash, fling, pour down, throw), излияния (flow, gush, outpourings, romantics, slops), изплисквам се (slop out, slop over), изплисквам (slop out, slop over, slosh). (various references) | |
Chinese | 泔 (slop from rinsing rice). (various references) | |
Czech | vystříknout (spurt), vylit, rozlít (spill, upset), přetékat (brim over, overflow, overrun), odpadní voda, limonáda (lemonade, slush). (various references) | |
Danish | vask (scouring, sink, washing), udslagskumme (sink), kumme (basin, bowl, pelvis), koekkenvask (sink). (various references) | |
Dutch | gootsteen (basin, sink). (various references) | |
Farsi | پساب اشپزخانه وامثال ان , مشروب رقیق وبی مزه , هرنوع لباس گشادروءی , لجن (Lair, Mire, Mud, Silt, Slob, Slobber, Slosh, Slough, Sludge, Slush), لبریزشدن (Redound), غذای رقیق وبی مزه , تفاله (Bagasse, Crap, Dross, Ross, Scum, Slag), اشغال خوری , ادم کثیف , ادم بی بندوبار (Skulk), روپوش کتانی پزشکان وامثال ان , شلوارگشاد, باتلاق (Bog, Marsh, Mire, Morass, Quagmire, Slough, Swamp, Swampland). (various references) | |
Finnish | parafiinijäännös (slop wax, wax petrolatum, wax tailings), likasanko (slop bucket). (various references) | |
French | soupe, traînasser, renverser (slosh), rejets de fabrication, rejets à retraiter (slop oil, slops), répandre (slosh), produits hors spécification (slop oil, slops), pâtée, nappe (slick), mixture, horspecs (slop oil, slops), fond de tasse, eaux sales, évier. (various references) | |
German | Schmutzwasser (swill). (various references) | |
Greek | ξεχειλίζω (boil over, brim, bubble over, overflow, run over, top up), νεροχύτης (sink), πλύμα, πασαλεάφω, φθηνά ρούχα (slops), ετοιματζήδικα ρούχα, λερώνω χύνων, απόπλυμα (slops), οχετός (conduit, drain, gutter, sewer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזון נוזלי, להשפך (be emptied, be poured out, spill), לגלוש (brim over, glide, overflow, run over, slide, trail). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szennyvíz (drainage, refuse water, sewage, sewerage, waste water), tócsa (plash, pool, puddle, Pule, sump), pocsolya (dub, mere, mire, pond, pool, puddle, slough, stank, sump, wallow), piszkos mosdóvíz, mosogatólé (dishwater, rinsings, swill), moslék (dishwater, glop, hogwash, hog-wash, muck, pig's wash, pigwash, swill, wash), lötty (dishwater, lap, slipslop, swill, ullage, water bewitched, wishy washy), kiloccsant víz, kilöttyint, készruha (hand-me-down, off the peg, reach-me-down, ready made, slop-work, store clothes), folyékony betegkoszt. (various references) | |
Indonesian | memerciki (bespatter, dabble, dapple), membasuh (rinse, wash). (various references) | |
Italian | versare (decant, deposit, pay in, pour, pour out, put down, scatter, shed, shower, spill, stream, tip, weep), traboccare (boil over, overflow, overrun, swim), rovesciare (capsize, down, Evert, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, pour, reverse, shower, spill, spill out, tip, topple, tumble, turn, turn inside out, turn over, upset), lavandino (sink, washbasin, washbowl), acquaio (sink). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 水翻し (slop basin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | みずこぼし (slop basin). (various references) | |
Manx | slishal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | opslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sumidor (sink), policial (bobby, bull, constable, constabulary, cop, crusher, patrolman, police officer, policeman, policewoman), polícia (bobby, bull, constable, constabulary, cop, crusher, patrolman, police, police force, policeman, policewoman), poça (pool), pia (washbasin), blusão e paletó. (various references) | |
Romanian | turna (cast, circumfuse, infuse, Mold, mould, pour, put in), pãta (attaint, blemish, cloud, foul, maculate, Mark, smear, smirch, smut, soil, speckle, splash, splatter, spoil, spot, stain, sully), murdãri (bedraggle, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, defile, foul, litter, mess, muck, muddy, pollute, puddle, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, splash, splatter, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), mlaştinã (bog, Fen, Marsh, mere, mire, moor, morass, puddle, quagmire, Slough, swamp), lãturi (dish water, hogwash, kitchen stuff, pig swill, pig's wash, slab, slops, swill, wash), halat (dressing gown, overall, robe, wrapper), hainã largã (frock), fi plângãreţ, da pe dinafarã, copoi (bloodhound, bull, ferret, hound, nark, nose, Ranger, retriever, tracker, trap), baltã (bog, Fen, lake, mere, moor, morass, plash, pool, puddle, Slough, swamp), bãuturi nealcoolice (soft drinks), apã de toaletã, agent de poliţie (beagle, detective, Dick, nark, nose, policeman, shadow, trap). (various references) | |
Russian | расплескивать, разливать (spill), мусор (garbage, gubbish, litter, ordure, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, trash), полицейский (constable, copper, cops, gumshoe, jemadar, patrolman, patrolmen, peeler, police, police constable, police officer, policeman, policemen, police-officer, redcap, runner, speed-cop, traffic cop, traffic manager, traffic officer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prosuti (outpour, pour out, spill, spill out), prosuta tečnost, proliti (shed, spill), mutljag (lees, sediment), bućkuriš (slosh, wish-wash), blato (dirt, mire, mud, quagmire, slops, sludge). (various references) | |
Spanish | sumidero (drain, sink, sinkhole, sump), verter (empty, pour in, shoot, tip, tip out), lodo blando, heces (dregs, lees, sediment, sweepings), gachas (gruel, mush, stirabout), fregadero (dresser, sink), desbordarse (flood, lap over, overflow, run over, spill over), desagüe (drain, drainage, draining, gutter, outfall, outflow, outlet, plughole), derramarse (boil over, leak, spill, spill out), derramar (draw, outpour, pour, pour out, scatter, shed, shower, spill, spill out, stream, strew, tumble, tumble over, upset), agua sucia. (various references) | |
Swedish | overall (coveralls, overalls), arbetsrock (smock). (various references) | |
Thai | เสื้อกันเปื้อน, โคลน (mud, slosh, sludge, slush), ทำให้ล้นออกมา, ทำหก (slosh), อาหารเหลว, อาหารที่ทำอย่างลวกๆ, ย่ำโคลน. (various references) | |
Turkish | suda yürümek (slosh, slush, squelch, Wade), sıçratmak (dabble, dash, jump, slosh, slosh on, slush, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, squirt), iğrenç sözler, höpürdeterek içmek (slop up, slurp), domuz yemi (pigswill, pigwash, swill), dökmek (cast, deplenish, deplete, diffuse, dump, effuse, empty, found, pour, pour from, pour out, pour out of, shed, shower, slosh on, spill, teem, tip, tip over, unbosom), döküp saçmak, bol gömlek, bol ceket, ağzını şapırdatarak yemek (slop up, slurp), çamurlu suda koşmak, çamurlu su birikintisi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | юшка (pottage, soup), сльота (sleet, slush), розливатися (overflow, pour, spate), розливати (ladle, ladle out), хлюпати (slosh, squish), калюжа (dub, plash, pool, puddle, wallow, wash), помиї (cat-lap, dishwater, draff, hog-wash, pig's wash, swill). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đội xếp bùn loãng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slop": slope, sloped, sloper, slopers, slopes, sloping, slopped, sloppier, sloppiest, sloppily, sloppiness, sloppinesses, slopping, sloppy, slops, slopwork, slopworks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "slop": slipslop. (additional references) | |
Words containing "slop": aslope, downslope, slipslops. (additional references) | |
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"Slop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alop, aslop, dlop, glop, klop, scop, sliph, slipp, slo, sloa, sloap, sloi, slol, sloopy, slopp, slor, slorp, slou, sloup, slov, sloy, sloz, slp, slup, snop, srop. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slop" (pronounced slÄ"p) |
| 3 | -l Ä" p | flop, glop, lop, plop. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lops, pols. | |
| Words within the letters "l-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: lop, ops, pol, sol, sop. | |
-2 letters: lo, op, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: clops, flops, glops, loops, lopes, loups, opals, plods, plops, plots, plows, ploys, poles, polis, polls, polos, polys, pools, sloop, slope, slops, spoil, spool. | |
+2 letters: aslope, bloops, clomps, copals, elopes, galops, gospel, jalops, lopers, loupes, lupous, nopals, orlops, oxlips, parols, peplos, pilose, pilots, pilous, pistol, plonks, podsol, poilus, polars, poleis, polers, polies, polios, polish, polkas, polyps, poshly, postal, poults, proles, prowls, pylons, saloop, sloops, sloped, sloper, slopes, sloppy, splore, splosh, spoils, spoilt, spools, sporal. | |
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