slops
Liquid kitchen waste
Slops covers various meanings united by looseness or liquidity.
Slops can be loose-fitting clothing, especially sailor's trousers or ready-made garments.
More commonly, slops refers to liquid waste or spilled food—kitchen slops fed to pigs, or the dirty water left after washing.
In older usage, slops meant cheap, mass-produced clothing sold to sailors.
She carried a bucket of slops out to the hogs.
Watery refuse for pigs
- scrapsSmall remaining pieces
- leftoversUneaten food kept afterward
- wasteUnwanted discarded material
- troughOpen container for animal feed
hogwash · kitchen scraps · garbage · leavings · peelings · refuse · offal · mash
Thin watery porridge
- mushSoft, thick mass
- swillWatery refuse for pigs
- slushPartly melted snow
- watery soupOverly liquid stew
swill
Watery refuse for pigs
trough · hogwash · kitchen scraps · garbage · leavings · peelings · refuse · offal · mash · bran
gruel
Thin watery porridge
watery soup · mess · gloop · sludge
wastewater
Contaminated drainage from buildings
dirty water · effluent · runoff · washings · rinse water · dishwater · suds · mop water · puddle · sludge
trousers
Bifurcated lower-body garment
- canvas pantsDurable woven cotton trousers
- wastetrash, garbage, rubbish, refuse, debris
- breechesbreeches, knee breeches, riding breeches
- historical fashiongown, petticoat, corset, bustle, chemise dress
slopsdelicacies
Choice, refined foods
haute cuisine · feast · cordon bleu · ambrosia · home cooking
slopsfresh water
Nonsaline H2O
clean water · pure water · drinking water · potable water · spring water
slopsbespoke suit
Personally fitted formal attire
finery · couture · Sunday best · dress uniform · formal attire
- sloppy joesLoose meat sandwiches
- sloppy workPoorly executed task
- sloppy drunkVisibly, clumsily intoxicated
- sloppy secondsAnother's romantic discard
- slop bucketPail for liquid waste
- slop sinkDeep utility basin