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sloppery
slop
  1. (uncountable) A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste.
  2. Scraps used as food for pigs.
  3. (dated) Human urine or excrement.
  4. Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
  5. (chiefly plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “We were served a big slop on a plate that looked anything but appetizing.”
      “One of my shoes came off in the mud, and I stepped in the slop with my sock.”
      “Suddenly, the cook would appear and throw out the slop and remnants.”
slopwork
  1. The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing.
  2. Clothing of this kind.
  3. (figuratively) Hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
  4. Examples:
    1. “And thus what slopwork, what toymakers', ironmongers' stuff it all was!”
      “A two-hour paid slopwork meeting on Friday, September 25, was the culmination of the campaign to get Turner to attend mediation.”
slop
  1. (now historical) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
  2. (plural) Loose trousers.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “We were served a big slop on a plate that looked anything but appetizing.”
      “One of my shoes came off in the mud, and I stepped in the slop with my sock.”
      “Suddenly, the cook would appear and throw out the slop and remnants.”
sloppiness
  1. (uncountable) The property of being sloppy.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being sloppy.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “His messy desk and disorganized files were clear examples of the sloppiness present in his work style.”
      “The sloppiness of the construction crew resulted in numerous mistakes and safety violations.”
      “At this very moment, exam markers are sharpening their red pencils to ring such sloppiness.”
slopshop
  1. (dated) A shop where slops, or ready-made clothes, are sold.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “So that as soon as my comrade was decently array'd at the first slopshop we came to, 'twas high time to seek an inn.”
      “Here was no jig-saw, paper-patterned, conventional German or French slopshop toy, daubed over with ill-smelling paint.”
      “At the first slopshop I encountered in the suburbs of the town, I got a carpet-bag and a clerical-looking suit.”
slopseller
  1. (dated) One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes.
slopping
  1. Liquid that has been slopped.
slop
  1. (archaic, costermongers) A policeman.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We were served a big slop on a plate that looked anything but appetizing.”
      “One of my shoes came off in the mud, and I stepped in the slop with my sock.”
      “Suddenly, the cook would appear and throw out the slop and remnants.”
slops
  1. (South Africa) plural of slop (“rubber thong sandals”)
  2. plural of slop (“scraps that will be fed to animals, particularly to hogs”)
  3. (nautical, dated) Clothing and bedding issued to sailors.
  4. (nautical, historical) Sailors’ breeches ending just below the knees or above the ankles, worn mainly in XVIII century.
  5. (dated) The dirty wastewater of a house.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “As the local women empty their slops into the drain outside the shop, the secretary runs out with her disinfectant spray to ward off infection.”
      “It is quite questionable whether or not anything is to be gained by feeding slops to the suckling pigs.”
      “If she were caught, the Guild would no more claim her than a pile of castle kitchen slops.”
slopsellers
  1. plural of slopseller
sloppinesses
slopshops
slopworks
  1. plural of slopwork
sloppings
  1. plural of slopping
slopperies
  1. plural of sloppery
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