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slop

nounadjectivenounverbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//slɒp//
  • United States//slɑp//

A flip-flop.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.

  2. 2

    A flip-flop.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- Proto-Germanic *slup-? Old English *slop Middle English slop English slop From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoleteBeing or relating to slops (cheap or ready-made clothing).

noun

  1. 1

    Any semisolid substance; goo, paste, pulp.

  2. 2

    Any semisolid substance; goo, paste, pulp. Soft, liquid mud or snow.

  3. 3

    Liquid carelessly spilled upon a surface; a soiled spot.

  4. 4

    Any inferior, weak, or unappetizing drink or semi-liquid food.

    The surprise is that anyone thinks cats will eat that slop

  5. 5

    Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.

  6. 6

    datedHuman urine or excrement.

  7. 7

    Domestic wastewater.

  8. 8

    slangFellatio.

    All on my dick, she won't stop, yah / I told her to give me some slop

  9. 9

    figurativeContent or entertainment which is worthless, or produced and consumed mindlessly.

    In a night spent surfing the television “datasphere” (to use another Cyberia buzzword), you can watch slop like Knight Rider 2010 (where virtual reality is a weekly plot point)

    We don't have a half-naked, barely-sentient scream queen on the cover. We don't give a shit about big-budget Hollywood slop. We don't focus exclusively on obsessive fanboy genres.

  10. 10

    figurativeContent or entertainment which is worthless, or produced and consumed mindlessly. Junk output from generative artificial intelligence published in large quantities, posing as human-made content.

    [object Object]

    His post describes a sense of unease, paranoia and loneliness, expressing deep disappointment at the state of the modern internet. He suggests that AI has successfully drowned out the majority of online human activity, reshaping the internet into a more controlled, algorithmic form that exists only to sell products and ideas.

    Almost all of the AI-generated slop online is peddled for clicks on social media, not published by major news outlets. These publications still get tripped up, of course, but it's rare.

    Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

  11. 11

    A dance popular in the 1960s.

    Do the monkey, do the pony

Etymology

Etymology tree Old English *sloppe Middle English *sloppe? English slop Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in cūsloppe), alternative form of Old English slyppe. Related to slip.

verb

  1. 1

    To spill or dump liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.

    I slopped water all over my shirt.

    a little Durham bull butted the pail and slopped him with the milk

  2. 2

    In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.

  3. 3

    To feed pigs.

  4. 4

    To make one's way through soggy terrain.

    We slopped through paddies in 100-degree-plus heat and slept with one eye open at night.

noun

  1. 1

    A policeman.

    Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak. After hearing the slop tell his tale, he says to me: 'What do you know of this man? […]

    Covey’s most stimulating impression on the sense of colour is in the blue of the police. He says he shouldn’t have thought that there were so many ‘slops’ in the world, and he seems to yield for a moment to the depressing conviction that we are too much governed.

Etymology

Alteration of ecilop, back slang for police.

Forms

plural
slops
past tense
slopped
past participle
slopped
present participle
slopping
third person singular
slops
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).