slop
verb (used with object)
to spill or splash (liquid).
were slopping
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past progressiveof slop.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Some seamen were slopping buckets of water on a blaze.
From Time Magazine Archive
What startled them was that they were slopping about in several inches of water, and this water seemed to be rising.
From Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch by Annie Roe Carr
