[
UK
/slˈɒps/
]
NOUN
- 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
How To Use slops In A Sentence
- This all changed when someone (probably an economist) spotted the nice turn that could be made by feeding slops or swill to pigs, and considered farming pigs intensively.
- A servitor, his apron stained with particles of food and slops of wine, hurried up, his greasy, uncombed hair masking his face. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
- | Private Reply bubba! what you doin! ya gotta keep the tortillas and bread separated off in a bucket of water to mush up for the chickens and turkey's breakfast and the other slops is for the pigs. wendy devlin Seeking the Real Mexico
- This definition for ‘hose’ on this site says that ‘men [wore] hose in two parts… The upper hose have a number of fashionable variations including French ‘round’ hose, trunk hose, slops, venetians, canions, and galligaskins.’
- Time consumed by the vessel in moving from loading or discharge port anchorage to her loading or discharge berth, discharging ballast water or slops, will not count as used laytime.
- We feed the slops to the pigs.
- And for his stint in prison he spent 48 hours in a prison cell, fed on slops, deprived of sleep, and occasionally having buckets of ice cold water thrown over him.
- If she were caught, the Guild would no more claim her than a pile of castle kitchen slops.
- The so-called slops were in fact a toxic mix of petroleum residues, sulphur and caustic soda which had accumulated in the ship. ANC Daily News Briefing
- The prosecution says it was misdescribed as routine "slops" from ordinary tank-cleaning. Trafigura faces criminal charges over attempt to offload toxic waste