slop
/slɑp/
noun
- Liquid or semi-liquid waste food; kitchen scraps or leftovers, often fed to animals.
- After dinner, they collected the slop from the plates to give to the pigs.
- The bucket of slop smelled sour and attracted flies.
- Farmers often mix grain with kitchen slop to make feed for their hogs.
- Spilled or splashed liquid, especially water or mud, making a mess.
- He wiped up the slop of coffee that had spilled on the counter.
- Be careful not to leave a slop of water on the bathroom floor.
- The kids tracked slop from the puddles all through the house.
- Sentimental or overly emotional writing or speech; drivel.
- The movie was full of romantic slop that made me roll my eyes.
- His speech was just sentimental slop with no real substance.
- I can't stand the slop they call poetry in that magazine.
Synonyms
verb
- To spill or splash liquid, especially carelessly or messily.
- She slopped water onto the floor while filling the dog's bowl.
- Don't slop your soup on the tablecloth.
- The paint slopped over the edge of the can when he bumped it.
- To serve or eat food messily or in large quantities.
- They slopped the stew into bowls without much care.
- The cafeteria workers slopped mashed potatoes onto every plate.
- He slopped down his breakfast in five minutes before running to the bus.