slop

UK/slɒp/

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Scotland/slɔp/

slop noun: a loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.

Noun (1)

slop (plural slops)

(obsolete) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
(South Africa, in plural) A flip-flop.

Synonyms:

beach sandal, chancla, go-ahead, jandal, plugger, thong, zori

Adjective

slop (not comparable)

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

Noun (2)

slop (countable and uncountable, plural slops)

(uncountable) Any semisolid substance; goo, paste, pulp.
1. Soft, liquid mud or snow.
Liquid carelessly spilled upon a surface; a soiled spot.
(in plural, often) Any inferior, weak, or unappetizing drink or semi-liquid food.
- The surprise is that anyone thinks cats will eat that slop1993, Mark Evanier, “How To Drive Humans Crazy”, in Garfield & Friends, season 6, episode 9, spoken by Garfield (Lorenzo Music)
(in plural, often) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.

Synonyms:

hogwash, swill
(dated) Human urine or excrement.
(in plural, often) Domestic wastewater.
(slang) Fellatio.
- All on my dick, she won't stop, yah / I told her to give me some slop2018, “Pull Up”, in Northsbest, performed by Lil Mosey
Synonyms:

sloppy toppy
(derogatory, figuratively) Content 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)1994 May, Heather Mackey, “You're getting colder: Cyberia presents a wide-eyed version of tech culture”, in San Francisco Bay Guardian Lit., page 7
- 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.1999, Steve Puchalski, “Editorial Ramblings”, in Shock Cinema, number 15, page 1
Synonyms:

garbage, tripe, rubbish, cheapie, crapola, gash, hunk of junk, load of bull, load of crap, load of shit
1. (derogatory, figuratively, artificial intelligence) Junk output from generative artificial intelligence published in large quantities, posing as human-made content.
  - 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...2024 January 16, Dani Di Placido, “The Dead Internet Theory, Explained”, in Forbes.com, retrieved 08 May 2024
  - 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.2024 April 4, Kim Komando, “Don't be fooled by deepfake videos and photos this election cycle. Here's how to spot AI”, in USA Today, retrieved 08 May 2024
(preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s.
- Do the monkey, do the pony1971, Loudon Wainwright III, “Suicide Song”, in Album II

Verb

slop (third-person singular simple present slops, present participle slopping, simple past and past participle slopped)

(transitive) 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 milk1950, Howard William Troyer, The salt and the savor, page 58
(transitive) In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
(transitive) To feed pigs.
(intransitive) 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.1980, The Leatherneck, volume 63, page 13

Noun (3)

slop (plural slops)

(uncommon, costermongers) 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? […]1866 March, anonymous author, “A real casual on casual wards”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 508
- 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.1899, Richard Whiteing, chapter XXIV, in No. 5 John Street, page 240
Synonyms:

5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler, blue meanie, bobby

slop meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Vietnamese

slop in Tamil

slop: கஞ்சி kañci

slop in Malayalam

flow, spill, overflow: തുളുമ്പുക, തുള്ളിത്തുളുമ്പുക, ചിന്നുക, കവിഞ്ഞൊഴുകുക, സ്രവിക്കുക, ചിന്തുക

slop in Kannada

ಕೆಸರು, ಮಂಜುನೀರು, ತೊಳೆನೀರು, ನೀರುಣಿಸು, ಕಲಗಚ್ಚು, ಕಸಮುಸುರೆಯ ನೀರು

slop in Vietnamese

scraps which are fed to pigs: cám

Examples of slop in a sentence

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[2024 May 6, @deepfates, Twitter:
“‘Ignore that email, it’s spam,’ and ‘Ignore that article, it’s slop,’ are both useful lessons.”2024 June 11, Benjamin Hoffman, quoting Simon Willison, “First Came ‘Spam.’ Now, With A.I., We’ve Got ‘Slop’”, in The New York Times, New...
In many ways, political slop is a logical end point for these image generators, which seem most useful for people trying to make a quick buck.2024 August 21, Charlie Warzel, “The MAGA Aesthetic Is AI Slop”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024:
“Coca-Cola just put out an ad and ruined Christmas,” Dylan Pearce, one of the campaign’s many critics, said on TikTok, adding, “To put out slop like this just ruins the Christmas spirit.”2024 November 20, Alex Vadukul, “Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative A.I.”, in The New York Times, New York...

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Forms of slop

Noun
plural	slops
Verb
third-person singular present	slops
present participle	slopping
past participle	slopped
past	slopped

Plural of slop: slops

Origin of 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”).

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.

Alteration of ecilop, back slang for police.

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Questions about slop

What does slop mean?: Slop means a loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
What is slop in Tamil?: Slop in Tamil is கஞ்சி (kañci). See Slop meaning in Tamil.
How do you use slop in a sentence?: 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
What part of speech is slop?: Slop can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce slop?: Slop is pronounced /slɒp/ (UK).
What is the plural of slop?: The plural of slop is slops.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slop (page history and authors); கஞ்சி (Tamil) (page history and authors); slop (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); slop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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