slop bucket
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of slop bucket
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Her only contact with other humans is a slit through which she can hear daily mass, save for Marte, the low-ranking Beguine assigned to deliver her meals and empty her slop bucket.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
The slop bucket sloshes on think tanks, lobbyists, message mavens and other influence peddlers.
From Fox News • Nov. 8, 2019
Each had a single cell some seven foot square around a concrete courtyard, with a slop bucket.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2013
A Kansan reflected the spreading disenchantment by likening the war to "running a foot race with one foot stuck in a slop bucket."
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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