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SLOP

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Irregular inflected forms: slopped    , slopping   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental

Synonyms:

glop; mush; slop; treacle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("slop" is a kind of...):

sentimentalism (the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form)

Derivation:

sloppy (excessively or abnormally emotional)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk

Synonyms:

pigswill; pigwash; slop; slops; swill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("slop" is a kind of...):

feed; provender (food for domestic livestock)

Derivation:

slop (feed pigs)

slop (ladle clumsily)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink

Example:

he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("slop" is a kind of...):

food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand

Example:

she carried out the sink slops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("slop" is a kind of...):

waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Deep soft mud in water or slush

Example:

they waded through the slop

Synonyms:

mire; slop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("slop" is a kind of...):

clay; mud (water soaked soil; soft wet earth)

Derivation:

sloppy ((of soil) soft and watery)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feed pigs

Synonyms:

slop; swill

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "slop" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

slop (wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container

Example:

splatter water

Synonyms:

slop; spill; splatter

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "slop" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

disgorge; shed; spill (cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over)

run out; spill (flow, run or fall out and become lost)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

The women slop water into the bowl

Sense 3

Meaning:

Ladle clumsily

Example:

slop the food onto the plate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "slop" is one way to...):

lade; laden; ladle (remove with or as if with a ladle)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

slop (wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Walk through mud or mire

Example:

We had to splosh across the wet meadow

Synonyms:

slop; slosh; splash; splosh; squelch; squish

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "slop" is one way to...):

footslog; pad; plod; slog; tramp; trudge (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

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