Slop vs Ram - What's the difference?
slop | ram |
A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
(in the plural, obsolete) Loose trousers.
*, II.12:
*: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.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(uncountable) A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste.
scraps used as food for pigs
(dated) Human urine or excrement.
Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
(chiefly, plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
to spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves.
To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
* 1950 , Howard William Troyer, The salt and the savor (page 58)
In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
to feed pigs
(electronics, computing) random access memory
(project management) responsibility assignment matrix
(risk management) reliability availability maintainability
(military) radar-absorbent material, a material absorbant to radar
(Royal Academy of Music)
As a noun slop
is a loose outer garment; a jacket or overall or slop can be (uncountable) a liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste.As a verb slop
is to spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves.As a proper noun ram is
rome.slop
English
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain.Noun
(en noun)- A pair of slops .
Etymology 2
Probably representing (etyl) *(term), related to (slip).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* pig food: slops, hogwash, swillDerived terms
* slops * slop-jar * slop-basin * slop-bowl * slop-pailVerb
- I slopped water all over my shirt.
- a little Durham bull butted the pail and slopped him with the milk
