slip-slop
Britishnoun
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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 Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
He had heard the slip-slop of the loose slippers, the tinkle of spoon against china, and then a faint tap.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
The six-penny numbers of this work regularly contrived to leave off just in the middle of a sentence, and in the nick of a story, where Tom Jones discovers Square behind the blanket; or where Parson Adams, in the inextricable confusion of events, very undesignedly gets to bed to Mrs. Slip-slop.
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