slop bucket

noun

1. slop pail.

Word History and Origins

Origin of slop bucket¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

The three of them devise a game that involves kicking the ball through one doorway or the other, and we’re lucky it never lands in the slop bucket or the soup.

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I start up the ladder carrying the slop bucket carefully.

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Better than being chained up by Captain Smith again with no slop bucket nearby.

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Richard is carrying the oatmeal pot for our mess, and James has a slop bucket he has just emptied.

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But mostly I am hoping someone will figure out that I need a slop bucket before I soil my slops.

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