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slop

¹ American  

[slop] / slɒp /

verb (used with object)

• slops,
  present (3rd person singular)
• slopped,
  past participle,  past
• slopping
  present participle

1. to spill or splash (liquid).

2. to spill liquid upon.

   Synonyms:

   spatter, slosh, splash

3. to feed slop to (pigs or other livestock).

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verb (used without object)

• slops,
  present (3rd person singular)
• slopped,
  past participle,  past
• slopping
  present participle

1. to spill or splash liquid (sometimes followed byabout ).

   The children happily slopped about in the puddles.

2. (of liquid) to spill or splash out of a container (usually followed byover ).

   The milk slopped over the rim of the glass.

3. to walk or go through mud, slush, or water.

4. Informal. to be unduly effusive or sentimental; gush (usually followed byover ).

5. to move in an idle, lazy, casual, or slovenly manner (usually followed by around orabout ).

   to spend the weekend slopping around the house.

noun

1. a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.

2. badly cooked or unappetizing food or drink.

3. bran from bolted cornmeal mixed with an equal part of water and used as a feed for swine and other livestock.

4. any similar, watery feed; swill.

5. Often slops

   1. the dirty water, liquid refuse, etc., of a household or the like.

   2. tasteless or unappetizing soup, stew, or drink.

6. kitchen refuse; swill.

7. liquid mud.

8. Distilling. slops, the mash remaining after distilling.

9. Informal. media (especially online content) having poor quality or no originality.

slop ² American  

[slop] / slɒp /

noun

1. slops,

   1. clothing, bedding, etc., supplied to sailors from the ship's stores.

   2. cheap, ready-made clothing in general.

   3. short, baggy trousers, worn by men, especially sailors, in the 16th and 17th centuries.

2. a loose-fitting overgarment, as a tunic or smock.

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slop ¹ British  

/ slɒp /

verb

1. to cause (liquid) to splash or spill or (of liquid) to splash or spill

2. (tr) to splash liquid upon

3. (intr; foll by along, through, etc) to tramp (through) mud or slush

4. (tr) to feed slop or swill to

   to slop the pigs

5. (tr) to ladle or serve, esp clumsily

6. informal to be unpleasantly effusive

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noun

1. a puddle of spilt liquid

2. (plural) wet feed, esp for pigs, made from kitchen waste, etc

3. (plural) waste food or liquid refuse

4. (plural) the beer, cider, etc, spilt from a barrel while being drawn

5. (often plural) the residue left after spirits have been distilled

6. informal (often plural) liquid or semiliquid food of low quality

7. soft mud, snow, etc

8. informal gushing speech or writing

slop ² British  

/ slɒp /

noun

1. (plural) sailors' clothing and bedding issued from a ship's stores

2. any loose article of clothing, esp a smock

3. (plural) men's wide knee breeches worn in the 16th century

4. (plural) shoddy manufactured clothing

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• unslopped
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Participles

• slopping
  present
• slopped
  past

Conjugated Forms

Present

• slop
  simple
• slops
  simple
• have slopped
  perfect
• has slopped
  perfect
• am slopping
  progressive
• are slopping
  progressive
• is slopping
  progressive
• have been slopping
  perfect progressive
• has been slopping
  perfect progressive

Past

• slopped
  simple
• had slopped
  perfect
• was slopping
  progressive
• were slopping
  progressive
• had been slopping
  perfect progressive

Future

• will slop
  simple
• will have slopped
  perfect
• will be slopping
  progressive
• will have been slopping
  perfect progressive

Etymology

Origin of slop¹

First recorded in 1400–50; Middle English noun sloppe “mud hole,” Old English -sloppe (in cūsloppe cowslip, literally, “cow slime”); akin to slip ³; the verb is derivative of the noun

Origin of slop²

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English slop(pe), slope “loose outer garment,” Old English -slop (in oferslop “overgarment, surplice”); compare Middle Dutch overslop, Old Norse yfirsloppr

Explanation

Sticky or squishy mud (or food that's just about as appetizing) is slop. You'll want to wear your tall rubber boots if you're going to walk through the slop on the way to the bus stop. Farmers feed their pigs slop, a messy, wet mix of various leftovers—and when they do, they can say they slop the pigs. A derogatory way to talk about food that doesn't look very tasty is to call it slop. And you can call sticky, overly sentimental music, writing, or films slop as well. The 15th century definition of slop was "mudhole," from the Old English cusloppe, "cow dung."

Example Sentences

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I suspect that the detector would flag the most uninvolved “Write this for me” slop but not the text that involves a lot of human molding.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Other social media users have hailed the movie as the antidote to the AI slop that is taking over social media algorithms.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

According to Roku, the future of entertainment is nonstop A.I. slop, churned out by absolute randos, playing 24/7.

From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2026

Doubling Starlink subscriptions to 12 million from a year earlier pales in comparison with talk about life on Mars and social-media posts highlighting AI goon slop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

There were no street vendors here, nor prosperous merchants, only sullen wives emptying their slop jars into the street, sometimes missing the scrawny, shoeless children playing there, sometimes not.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Liquid mud slops into my wellies with every pogo jump.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2021

Martin, however, rather than see this wretched man in such a loathsome predicament, said he would empty the man’s slops himself, and did so.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2018

But the way that “Victoria and Abdul” slops it around is — mostly — hogwash.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017

Yet many Westerners are happy to consume lobster, which scavenge from the sea floor, and pigs, which eat slops.

From Nature ● May 26, 2015

When Mr. Zuckerman reached the pigpen, he climbed over the fence and poured the slops into the trough.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

I got slopped: Someone used AI to write my biography.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

This week, Congress slopped it up once more before heading into a long recess.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

The authors introduce the idea of the gumline, the mushy, undercooked top of a crust onto which too much tomato sauce has been slopped.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

His matcha had slopped onto one of his tan suede loafers.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

He found Nellie playing with the water in the trough, pushing waves and tossing her head so that the water slopped out on the ground.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

Those meals aren’t always the most nutritious; while cafeterias slopping out “mystery meat” and cardboard pizza slices are a now teen TV cliché, it’s not far off from the truth.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024

Meanwhile, they’re just slopping together these burritos for us filled with beef and Doritos and ranch dressing and whatever they can think of to put it in there.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2023

I almost feel like I’m at a cocktail party when I’m holding one, even if I’m slopping around in jeans.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022

“She’s been working — everyone’s been working — to make it perfect, and here she is slopping on some house paint. That’s the confidence of an artist who is really in control of her language.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

“Not such a prize?” asked Shmuel, as he dipped his hands into the bowl, slopping water over the side.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

Related Words

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