Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun slop

5 senses of slop

Sense 1
slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash -- (wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk)
       => feed, provender -- (food for domestic livestock)

Sense 2
slop, mire -- (deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop")
       => mud, clay -- (water soaked soil; soft wet earth)

Sense 3
slop -- ((usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand; "she carried out the sink slops")
       => waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product -- (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers")

Sense 4
slop -- ((usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink; "he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided")
       => food, solid food -- (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment; "food and drink")

Sense 5
treacle, mush, slop, glop -- (writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental)
       => sentimentalism -- (the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb slop

4 senses of slop

Sense 1
spill, slop, splatter -- (cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water")
       => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant")

Sense 2
squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slop -- (walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow")
       => slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp -- (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone")

Sense 3
slop -- (ladle clumsily; "slop the food onto the plate")
       => ladle, lade, laden -- (remove with or as if with a ladle; "ladle the water out of the bowl")

Sense 4
slop, swill -- (feed pigs)
       => feed, give -- (give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat")

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