[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slop \slop\, v. t. imp.  p. p. slopped; p. pr.  vb. n.
   slopping.
   1. to cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the
      vessel containing it; to spill.
      1913 webster

   2. to spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
      1913 webster
see also:
slopped slopping 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slop \slop\, v. i.
   to overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the
   vessel containing it; -- often with over.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slop \slop\, n. as. slop a frock or over-garment, fr. sl?pan to
   slip, to slide; akin to icel. sloppr a thin garment; cf. ohg.
   slouf a garment. cf. slip, v. i.
   1. any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a
      night dress, or a smock frock. obs. --halliwell.
      1913 webster

   2. a loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the
      plural. "a pair of slops." --sir p. sidney.
      1913 webster

            there's a french salutation to your french slop.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. pl. ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing,
      bedding, and other furnishings.
      1913 webster
see also:
slip 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slop \slop\, n. oe. sloppe a pool; akin to as. sloppe, slyppe,
   the sloppy droppings of a cow; cf. as. sl?pan to slip, and e.
   slip, v.i. cf. cowslip.
   1. water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt,
      as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
      1913 webster

   2. mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the
      plural.
      1913 webster

   3. pl. dirty water; water in which anything has been washed
      or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
      1913 webster

   slop basin, or slop bowl, a basin or bowl for holding
      slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or
      coffee cups at the table.

   slop molding brickmaking, a process of manufacture in
      which the brick is carried to the drying ground in a wet
      mold instead of on a pallet.
      1913 webster
see also:
cowslip slop basin slop bowl slop molding 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

slop
     n : wet feed especially for pigs consisting of mostly kitchen
         waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk syn: slops,
          swill, pigswill, pigwash
     v 1: cause or allow a liquid substance to run or flow from a
          container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water" syn: spill,
           splatter
     2: walk through mud or mire; "we had to splosh across the wet
        meadow" syn: squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh
     3: ladle clumsily; "slop the food onto the plate"
     4: feed pigs syn: swill
     also: slopping, slopped
see also:
slops swill pigswill pigwash spill splatter 
squelch squish splash splosh slosh 
slopping slopped 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

168 moby thesaurus words for "slop":
   asperge, bathos, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, bilge, bilgewater,
   bleeding heart, bolt, bones, carrion, cascade, cataract, chaff,
   chuckhole, clay, cloyingness, cram, culm, dabble, damp, dampen,
   dash, deadwood, deluge, dew, dishwater, ditchwater, douche, douse,
   draff, dregs, dust, engulf, filings, flood, garbage, gash, glop,
   gobble, goo, gumbo, gunk, guzzle, hearts-and-flowers, hog wallow,
   hogwash, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, husks,
   ingurgitate, inundate, irrigate, leavings, lees, loblolly,
   maudlinness, mawkishness, mire, moisten, muck, muckhole, mud,
   mud puddle, mudhole, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism,
   namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, offal, offscourings, ooze,
   orts, overbrim, overflow, overrun, oversentimentalism,
   oversentimentality, overwhelm, paddle, pap, parings, plash,
   potsherds, pour out, pour over, puddle, rags, raspings, refuse,
   riffraff, romanticism, rubbish, run over, scourings, scrap iron,
   scraps, scum, scurf, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality,
   sewage, sewerage, shards, shavings, slab, slack, slag, slime, slip,
   slob, slobber, slog, sloppiness, slops, slosh, slough, sludge,
   slush, soap opera, sob story, sparge, spatter, spill, spill out,
   spill over, splash, splatter, splosh, splurge, sponge, spray,
   sprinkle, spurtle, squab, squash, stodge, stubble, submerge, swamp,
   swash, sweep, sweepings, sweetness and light, swill, syringe,
   tares, tearjerker, toil, trash, trudge, wastage, waste,
   waste matter, wastepaper, water, weeds, wet, wet down, whelm,
   wolf

[7] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

slop n. 1. a one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error
   but in only one of two directions. for example, if you need a piece of
   wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure
   to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too
   short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but
   you can't paste it back on again. when discrete quantities are involved,
   slop is often introduced to avoid the possibility of being on the losing
   side of a fencepost error. 2. the percentage of `extra' code generated
   by a compiler over the size of equivalent assembler code produced by
   hand-hacking; i.e., the space or maybe time you lose because you
   didn't do it yourself. this number is often used as a measure of the
   goodness of a compiler; slop below 5 is very good, and 10 is usually
   acceptable. with modern compiler technology, esp. on risc machines, the
   compiler's slop may actually be _negative_; that is, humans may be
   unable to generate code as good. this is one of the reasons assembler
   programming is no longer common.


see also:
fudge factor fencepost error hand-hacking 

[8] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

slop
     
         1. a one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance
        for error but in only one of two directions.  for example, if
        you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when
        you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large
        amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little
        bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't
        paste it back on again.  when discrete quantities are
        involved, slop is often introduced to avoid the possibility of
        being on the losing side of a fencepost error.
     
        2. the percentage of "extra" code generated by a compiler over
        the size of equivalent assembly code produced by
        hand-hacking; i.e. the space or maybe time you lose because
        you didn't do it yourself.  this number is often used as a
        measure of the quality of a compiler; slop below 5 is very
        good, and 10 is usually acceptable.  modern compilers,
        especially on riscs, may actually have negative slop; that
        is, they may generate better code than humans.  this is one of
        the reasons assembler programming is becoming less common.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-05-28
     
     
see also:
fudge factor fencepost error assembly code hand-hacking risc jargon file 

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