slop
/slɑp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A flip-flop.
Example Sentences
- "The surprise is that anyone thinks cats will eat that slop"
- "All on my dick, she won't stop, yah / I told her to give me some slop"
- "In a night spent surfing the television “datasphere” (to use another Cyberia buzzword), you can watch slop like Knight Rider 2010 (where virtual reality is a weekly plot point)"
- "We don't have a half-naked, barely-sentient scream queen on the cover. We don't give a shit about big-budget Hollywood slop. We don't focus exclusively on obsessive fanboy genres."
- "His post describes a sense of unease, paranoia and loneliness, expressing deep disappointment at the state of the modern internet. He suggests that AI has successfully drowned out the majority of online human activity, reshaping the internet into a more controlled, algorithmic form that exists only to sell products and ideas."
- "Almost all of the AI-generated slop online is peddled for clicks on social media, not published by major news outlets. These publications still get tripped up, of course, but it's rare."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- Proto-Germanic *slup-? Old English *slop Middle English slop English slop From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: slop, *slop, *sloppe, slyppe
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /slɑp/
- British English: /slɒp/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food, Law.