slop

/slɑp/

/slɒp/

Other forms: slops; slopped; slopping

Sticky or squishy mud (or food that's just about as appetizing) is slop. You'll want to wear your tall rubber boots if you're going to walk through the slop on the way to the bus stop.

Farmers feed their pigs slop, a messy, wet mix of various leftovers—and when they do, they can say they slop the pigs. A derogatory way to talk about food that doesn't look very tasty is to call it slop. And you can call sticky, overly sentimental music, writing, or films slop as well. The 15th century definition of slop was "mudhole," from the Old English cusloppe, "cow dung."

Definitions of slop

1. noun

   deep soft mud in water or slush
   “they waded through the slop”

   synonyms: mire

   type of:

   clay, mud

   water-soaked soil; soft, wet earth
2. noun

   (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
   “he lived on the thin slops that food kitchens provided”

   type of:

   food, solid food

   any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
3. noun

   wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
   synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slops, swill

   type of:

   feed, provender

   food for domestic livestock
4. noun

   (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”

   type of:

   waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product

   any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
5. noun

   writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
   synonyms: glop, mush, treacle

   type of:

   sentimentalism

   the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form
6. verb

   cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
   synonyms: spill, splatter

   disgorge, shed, spill

   cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over

   run out, spill

   flow, run or fall out and become lost

   type of:

   displace, move

   cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
7. verb

   walk through mud or mire
   synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh, squelch, squish

   type of:

   footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge

   walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
8. verb

   ladle clumsily
   “slop the food onto the plate”

   type of:

   lade, laden, ladle

   remove with or as if with a ladle
9. verb

   feed pigs
   synonyms: swill

   type of:

   feed, give

   give food to