slops

Noun

• wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
• cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain)
• wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
• deep soft mud in water or slush
• (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand
  • "she carried out the sink slops"
• (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
  • "he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided"
• writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
• Loose trousers.
• Sailors’ breeches ending just below the knees or above the ankles, worn mainly in XVIII century.
• Clothing and bedding issued to sailors.
• plural of slop (“rubber thong sandals”)
• plural of slop (“scraps fed to animals; household wastewater”)

Verb

• cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
• walk through mud or mire
• ladle clumsily
• feed pigs
• third-person singular simple present indicative of slop

Examples

• I don't mind slopping the hogs, but I don't like the stench of the slops.

Synonyms

glop, mire, mush, pigswill, pigwash, slop, slosh, spill, splash, splatter, splosh, squelch, squish, swill, treacle, list in flip-flop, open-kneed breeches