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Synonyms for slop

Most common

pink slime tripe mush glop swill mire flip-flop pig's-wash

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Garbage — content or entertainment which is worthless, or produced and consumed mindlessly. Junk output from generative…

garbage US AU CA, pink slime, rubbish, tripe, cheapie informal, gash vulgar slang UK

3. Swill — scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs

swill, hogwash

4. Mire — any semisolid substance; goo, paste, pulp. Soft, liquid mud or snow

mire, slush

Other

pig's-wash, flip-flop, toppy, pigswill, filth slang UK, plod slang UK, shovelware slang, sloppy toppy vulgar slang, brizz slang rare

Verb

1. Slosh

slosh, squish informal, splash, squelch, splosh

2. Spill

spill, splatter

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Any semisolid substance; goo, paste, pulp. Soft, liquid mud or snow.

  2. n. 2

    Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.

  3. v. 1

    To spill or dump liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.

    I slopped water all over my shirt.

  4. v. 2

    In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.

Related words

Word family
slop-basin slop-bowl slop-jar slop-pail slops sloppy
Phrases
slop bucket slop-bowl
Is a kind of
spam

Forms

Plural
slops → rubbishes, tripes, cheapies, gashes…
Past participle
slopped
e.g. slopped → sloshed, squished, splashed, squelched…

Example sentences

  • tripe Do you really expect me to swallow this tripe?
  • mush The banana turned to mush in the bottom of the bag.
  • swill Even the finest fete becomes mere hogs swill.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
slopsteady
triperising
mushrising
gloprising
swillrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
goo1
4 letters
mush1, gash1, mire1, plod1, glop1
5 letters
spill1, filth1, slush1, tripe1, swill1, slosh1, gloop, toppy, brizz
6 letters
splash1, squish, splosh
7 letters
garbage2, rubbish2, treacle, hogwash2, squelch1, cheapie
8 letters
splatter2, pigswill
10 letters
shovelware

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (garbage2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
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