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slop shops

slop shops is the plural of slop shop.

Meaning of slop shop

Noun

slop shop (plural slop shops)

  1. (historical) A shop where slops (ready-made clothes) are sold.
    • [H]e was therefore eaſily prevailed on to bind me apprentice to one of my ſtep-mother's friends, who kept a ſlop-ſhop in Wapping.1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […]...

Questions about slop shops

What is slop shops the plural of?
Slop shops is the plural of slop shop.

Words near slop shops in the dictionary

  1. slop chests
  2. slop out
  3. slop shoot
  4. slop shoots
  5. slop shop
  6. slop shops
  7. slop sink
  8. slop sinks
  9. slop-basin
  10. slop-basins
  11. slop-bellied

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