“Many a night, from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest,
Did I look on great Orion SLOPING slowly to the west.”
Though this correspondent may not have intended it, his joke has given the key to the situation, and has shown how our cousins most probably came to use the word in its present sense. “The sun is SLOPING fast.”
Slops, any weak, wet, and warm mixture. Hard drinkers regard all effeminate beverages as SLOPS.
Slops, chests or packages of tea; “he shook a slum of SLOPS,” i.e., stole a chest of tea. Also ready-made clothes—the substantive of SLOP.
Slops, liquid house-refuse.
Slopshop, a tailor’s shop where inferior work is done, and where cheap goods are sold.
Slour, to lock, or fasten.—Prison Cant.
Sloured, buttoned up; SLOURED HOXTER, an inside pocket buttoned up.
Slowcoach, a lumbering, dull person; one slow of comprehension.
Slowed, to be locked up (in prison).