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Meanings of slopps in English

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Wide, baggy breeches of the 17th century.

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Examples for "slops"
Examples for "slops"
1
Her hand is shaking so badly that coffee slops on the floor.
The Atrocity Archives
2
Kitchen slops and casual refuse continued to be thrown into the street.
Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ...
3
The old Professor had such slops as suggested a sickening second childhood.
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
4
The water came to you, and every room consumed its own slops.
The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
5
Every time Lurvy slops him, the food runs down around the ears.
Charlotte’s Web
1
To-morrow I shall go and look for galligaskins.
Mary's Meadow, and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers
2
I shall produce only one passage out of this poet, which is the misfortune of his galligaskins:
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
3
He was a rough, powerful peasant, with cap and tunic of untanned sheepskin, leather breeches, and galligaskins round legs and feet.
The White Company
4
He goes on to relate how he is besieged by duns, and what a chasm there is in his "galligaskins."
History of English Humour, Vol. 2
5
The jerkin, the doublet, the galligaskins were put on to serve the practical purposes of life, not to attract the policeman or the spinster.
A Book of Scoundrels