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n. - Cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain); Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.

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  • Verb (used without object) : The children happily slopped about in the puddles. ,The milk slopped over the rim of the glass. ,to spend the weekend slopping...
  • The so called slops were a mix of petroleum residues, sulphur and caustic soda which had accumulated in the ship.
  • "I am not a chemist," he said, adding he believed Nzi who said the biggest problem with the slops was their smell.
  • The so-called slops were in fact a mix of petroleum residues, sulphur and caustic soda which had accumulated in the ship.
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