slop
/slɒp/ (bre, ipa) · /slɑːp/ (ame, ipa)
slop — verb
- sloppresent simple I / you / we / they
- slopshe / she / it
- sloppedpast simple
- slopping-ing form
1. to make a liquid go over the side of a cup, bowl, or other container, usually be
to make a liquid go over the side of a cup, bowl, or other container, usually because you move it roughly or without enough care.
Zayd slopped hot coffee over the desk while reaching for the phone.
slop + liquid + over [surface]
The waiter carried the soup so fast that it slopped onto the floor.
Tea slopped over the rim of the cup as the train shook.
Paloma filled the bucket too full, and dirty water slopped down her legs.
Be careful not to slop paint on the carpet while you stir it.
文法句型
slop + liquid + over/onto
liquid + slop + over the edge
用法筆記
Subject is usually a careless person or an unsteady container; the liquid lands somewhere unwanted. Often paired with prepositions like 'over', 'onto', or 'down'.
常見錯誤
2. to walk heavily and noisily through mud, melting snow, or soft wet ground.
to walk heavily and noisily through mud, melting snow, or soft wet ground.
The farmers slopped through the flooded field to reach the trapped sheep.
slop through + [wet ground]
Ingrid slopped across the muddy yard in her brother's heavy boots.
After the storm, the children slopped happily through every puddle on the lane.
The hikers slopped down the wet hillside, sinking deeper with each step.
文法句型
slop through/across + [wet ground]
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: here nothing is being spilled. The verb describes a person moving through wet, soft ground, and almost always needs a direction word such as 'through' or 'across'.
3. to give wet food waste to farm animals, especially pigs.
to give wet food waste to farm animals, especially pigs.
Every morning before school, Quan slopped the pigs behind the barn.
slop + [farm animal]
The old farmer slopped his hogs with leftover potatoes and sour milk.
slop + [animal] + with [food waste]
Zola fed the hens first, then slopped the two fat pigs near the gate.
The children took turns slopping the goats at their grandfather's farm.
- feed
general and neutral; 'slop' specifically means feeding wet waste to livestock
文法句型
slop + [animal]
用法筆記
Object is almost always pigs or other farm animals. The food given is the noun 'slop' (sense 1), so the verb and noun are closely linked.
slop — noun
1. wet kitchen leftovers, often stirred together with water or old milk, that are g
wet kitchen leftovers, often stirred together with water or old milk, that are given to farm animals such as pigs.
The farmer poured a bucket of slop into the trough for the hungry pigs.
uncountable: a bucket of slop
Liam saved all the vegetable peelings as slop for his neighbour's hogs.
slop as [animal feed]
The smell of warm slop filled the barn where the pigs were waiting.
Each evening Ryo carried the heavy pail of slop down to the pigsty.
- swill
near-synonym for liquid food waste fed to pigs; slightly more old-fashioned
用法筆記
Uncountable; never used with 'a' or in the plural for this meaning. The food is specifically waste mixed with liquid, not dry animal feed like grain.
常見錯誤
2. food or drink that tastes bad because it is too thin, watery, or weak.
food or drink that tastes bad because it is too thin, watery, or weak.
Élise pushed away the grey soup, calling it tasteless slop from the canteen.
slop = [unappetising watery food]
The hospital coffee was cold, weak slop that nobody wanted to drink.
After a week of camp slop, the hikers dreamed of a proper hot meal.
Kasia complained that the watery stew was little more than warm slop.
用法筆記
Uncountable and strongly negative; used to complain about food that is unpleasantly runny or weak. Distinguish from sense 1: here a person is eating it, not an animal.
3. poor internet material, such as articles, pictures, or videos, made cheaply and
poor internet material, such as articles, pictures, or videos, made cheaply and in large amounts, often by a computer program rather than a person.
Shirin scrolled past pages of AI slop before finding one honest review.
AI slop = low-quality machine-made content
The blog was full of slop: fake recipes that no real cook had tested.
Readers grew tired of the cheap slop that flooded the news site each day.
Aarav warned that search results were now buried under generated slop.
用法筆記
A recent, informal sense, often in the phrase 'AI slop'. Uncountable. Implies the content was made fast and in bulk with little human effort or accuracy.
4. soft, wet mud or half-melted snow that you sink into or splash through.
soft, wet mud or half-melted snow that you sink into or splash through.
Adisa's boots disappeared into the thick slop at the edge of the river.
slop = [soft wet mud]
After three days of rain, the path turned into ankle-deep brown slop.
The dog rolled in the cold slop and came back covered in grey mud.
Cars sprayed melting slop across the pavement on the busy winter street.
用法筆記
Uncountable. Refers to ground that is wet enough to be soft and messy, somewhere between mud and slush. Links to verb sense 2 (slopping through wet ground).
5. a piece of writing, a speech, or a song that people mock for being far too sweet
a piece of writing, a speech, or a song that people mock for being far too sweet and full of soft emotion.
Critics dismissed the love song as sentimental slop with no real feeling.
slop = [over-sweet emotional content]
Christopher rolled his eyes at the greeting-card slop printed inside the gift.
The speech turned into pure slop, all tears and empty praise for the boss.
Ravindra found the romance novel to be slop, sweet enough to make him groan.
用法筆記
Uncountable and dismissive; used to mock emotional writing or music seen as cheap and insincere. Distinguish from sense 2: here the target is words or music, not food.