Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
AS. slop, a frock or over-garment, fr. slpan, to slip, to slide; akin to Icel. sloppr, a thin garment; cf. OHG. slouf, a garment. Cf. Slip (v. i.)
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A.S. sloppe, slyppe, cow-droppings—slúpan, to slip.
In literature:
I learned to do up the night turns, slop the hogs and help bout the milkin'.
"Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves" by Work Projects Administration
Pigs void an enormous quantity of water, especially when fed on slops from the house, whey, etc.
"Talks on Manures" by Joseph Harris
WATER your rose with a slop-pail when it's in bud, and you'll be asked the name of it when it's in flower.
"Mary's Meadow" by Juliana Horatia Ewing
She came so hastily that the contents of the two cups she carried slopped over.
"Key Out of Time" by Andre Alice Norton
Without a word the drummer hauled himself out of the slop and walked sullenly forward.
"Earth's Enigmas" by Charles G. D. Roberts
Feed easily digested food, slops, etc.
"The Veterinarian" by Chas. J. Korinek
Not patriotic, exactly, but solid and native heathy and Scots-wha-hae-wi'-Wallace and all that kind of slop.
"Gigolo" by Edna Ferber
His window at the moment exhibited his recent satirical publication entitled a Slap at Slop and the Bridge Street Gang.
"Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II." by Pierce Egan
She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
"How to Succeed" by Orison Swett Marden
The slops should be emptied, and the chamber should be washed with cold water, using a special cloth.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools" by Ministry of Education Ontario
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In poetry:
He paddled down the winding stairs
And to the parlor hied,
Dispensing pools of foamy suds
And slop on every side.
"The Ballad Of The Taylor Pup" by Eugene Field
All day I wallowed in the mud,
And ate the choicest slops.
I watched the brindles chew their cud--
The farmer tend his crops.
"The Epic Of The Hog" by Edwin Carty Ranck
See, the desert moon is rising
For the golden sun has dropped
And the Burma girl is sleeping
Sleeping sleeps she never slopped.
"Mandalay 1" by Billy Bennett
And that is the call of the Yukon
That wafts o'er the trees and housetops
Saying, "Call me early, mother, dear
For I'm to be Queen of the slops."
"Call Of The Yukon" by Billy Bennett
And there was Jake Without-the-Ears,
And Pamba the Malay,
And Carboy Gin the Guinea cook,
And Luz from Vigo Bay,
And Honest Jack who sold them slops
And harvested their pay.
"The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House" by Rudyard Kipling
His dress wor black as black could be,
An th' latest fashion aw could see,
But yet they hung soa dawderly,
Like suits i' shops;
Bi'th' heart! yo mud ha putten three
Sich legs i'th' slops.
"A Strange Stooary" by John Hartley
In news:
Compared to, say, slopping out a hog barn, checking tire pressure is a hoot.
Would a farmer who put out a trough of slop be surprised if it attracted a bunch of pigs.
At the Punchestown Racecourse in Dublin, Ireland, a real slop-in-the-face affair.
Trough full of stupid slop .
Pig wallows in slop on night of upsets.
Pig Slop was not just some dude's basement.
The ' slop bucket' makes it easy.
Slop , shop, fish-fry stop.
All Blogs Slop Culture NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
One advantage of slop , however, is that it makes almost all surfaces equal and soft.
Black Friday brings out crowds, some slopping over from Thursday.
Trough full of stupid slop.
Could have been a glitch, because the turbo model, also driven a week, had no such slop in the stop, nor did other Foresters driven briefly.
Ruler on Ice rules in slop and wins Belmont Stakes.
Rain is slopping down, the wind gusting to 30.
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In science:
At 11.75GHz, we observe that the exponential decay with nearly the same slop holds for both cases - the slight difference is due to the finite width in the ‘Outside’ case, and reveals the genuine localization behavior.
Are waves all localized in two dimensional random media?
The estimated slops for the transmission are indicated in the figure.
Are waves all localized in two dimensional random media?
FIG. 2: (a) Conductance as a function of the sample thickness at 300 K, 100 K and 5 K. (b) Conductivity of the film interior derived from the slops of the conductance-thickness lines in region (III) of (a) as a function of temperature.
Bi(111) thin film with insulating interior but metallic surfaces
By getting the slops at different temperatures, we establish a relation between σixx and temperature, as shown in Fig. 2(b) as σixx vs 1/T .
Bi(111) thin film with insulating interior but metallic surfaces
The slop of this curve determines the disk viscous stability.
Comment on Viscous Stability of Relativistic Keplerian Accretion Disks
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