slops
Noun
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Noun
- (obsolete) Loose trousers.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- Chrysippus said that some Philosophers would in open view of all men shew a dozen of tumbling-tricks, yea, without any slops or breeches, for a dozen of olives.
- A pair of slops.
- (nautical, historical) Sailors’ breeches ending just below the knees or above the ankles, worn mainly in XVIII century.
- Synonyms: open-kneed breeches
- 2012, Nelson's navy, by Philip Haythornthwaite, page 26:
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- (nautical, dated) Clothing and bedding issued to sailors.
- (South Africa) plural form of slop
- (an item of footwear) see list in flip-flop
- plural form of slop
- I don't mind slopping the hogs, but I don't like the stench of the slops.
- third-person singular form of slop
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