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slopworks

slopworks is the plural of slopwork.

Meaning of slopwork

Noun

slopwork (usually uncountable, plural slopworks)

  1. (archaic, usually) The manufacture of slops (cheap ready-made clothing).
  2. (archaic, usually) Clothing of this kind.
  3. (archaic, figuratively, usually) Hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
    • [Thomas] Carlyle continued as busy as ever at what he called 'the despicable craft of reviewing,' but doing his very best with it. No slop-work ever dropped from his pen.1882, James Anthony Froude, “A.D. 1829. Æt. 34.”, in Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 […], volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 52

Questions about slopworks

What is slopworks the plural of?
Slopworks is the plural of slopwork.

Words near slopworks in the dictionary

  1. slopulist
  2. slopulists
  3. slopwork
  4. slopworker
  5. slopworkers
  6. slopworks
  7. slopy
  8. Slora
  9. SLORC
  10. slore
  11. slores

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