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slip-slop

British  

noun

  1. a rubber-soled sandal attached to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the next toe

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His writings the very slip-slop of "commerage," the tittle-tattle of a Sunday paper, dressed up in the cant of Kentucky; the very titles, the contemptible affectation of unredeemed twaddle, 'Pencillings by the Way!'

From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James

Here is a specimen of the slip-slop with which so many thousand reams of paper have lately been spoiled.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 by Various

This semi-fashionable slip-slop, within twenty yards of the wild beasts' den, on the other side of the barricade, sounded strange; but Mr. Frere thought nothing of it.

From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

In this respect Peter Parley was the worst offender, and was regarded as “a sad purveyor of slip-slop, and no matter how amusing, ignorant of his subject.”

From Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Halsey, Rosalie Vrylina

Then down the drop I run, slip-slop, where all the road is slithy.

From A Book for Kids by Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James)

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