slip-slop
Britishnoun
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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
He could only drive in a slip-slop amateur way and aimlessly zigzagged down the sloping bank which fell away to the high road.
From Red Money by Fergus Hume
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 Rosalie Vrylina Halsey
"So, the modern clergyman still believes in slip-slop, does he?" he exclaimed in his most aggressive manner.
From The Dweller on the Threshold by Robert Smythe Hichens
There he stood, for all that the sea was about him, the slip-slop waves leapin' wild, and the tide making, too, at that.
From The Best Psychic Stories by Various
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