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slopshop

slopshop is the alternative form 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: […]...

Forms of slopshop

pluralslopshops

Questions about slopshop

What is slopshop the alternative form of?
Slopshop is the alternative form of slop shop.

Words near slopshop in the dictionary

  1. slopseller
  2. slopsellers
  3. slopselling
  4. slopshoot
  5. slopshoots
  6. slopshop
  7. slopshops
  8. slopsquatting
  9. sloptent
  10. sloptimism
  11. sloptimist

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