slopping, vbl. n.
(ˈslɒpɪŋ)
[f. slop v.2]
a. The action of the verb in various senses.
| 1771 Foote Maid of B. i. (1778), When I am got out of one fit, how the devil am I to gather strength to encounter the next? Do you think it is to be done by sipping and slopping? 1881 Daily Telegr. 28 Jan., The slopping of the water outside made a strange sound. 1888 Scribner's Mag. III 427 It prevents slopping, but on the other hand makes it hard to pour. |
b. With advbs., as -out (see slop v.2 1 c), -over; slopping-up (N. Amer. slang), a drinking-bout.
| 1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping ii. iv. 271 The bums intended to have a great ‘sloppin'-up’ (drinking-bout). 1922 H. Kemp Tramping on Life 133 ‘Slopping up’ is what the tramps call a drinking jamboree. 1945 H. Read Coat of Many Colours lxii. 304 But there is no slopping-over of irrelevant emotion. 1948 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 9 Jan. 16/1 This [sc. a fulsome speech] is what is known among the hamlets of his native State as ‘slopping over’, and is considered as serious a breach of etiquette as..beating one's grandmother in public. 1955 Times 25 May 6/6 A hospital officer at the prison, said that on May 7 he was unlocking doors for ‘slopping out’ to be done. 1968 L. Deighton Only when I Larf xviii. 232 You can tell a new warder; they just can't stand the smell of the slopping-out each morning. 1976 O. Jacks Assassination Day v. 80 A long term in prison..reviled him, from slopping out to terrible food. |
So ˈslopping ppl. a.
| 1839 Hood To St. Swithin vii, Milkmaids, and other slopping benefactors! |