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billiards
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?l??dz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?l.j?dz/
- Hyphenation: bil?liards
Etymology 1
From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?olh?yos (“leaf”), from *b?leh?- (“blossom, flower”).
Noun
billiards (uncountable)
- (games, Britain) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
- Synonym: English billiards
- (games, US) The collective noun for games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:cue sport
Translations
See also
- pool
- snooker
Etymology 2
Noun
billiards
- plural of billiard
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slop
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl?p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).
Noun
slop (plural slops)
- (now historical) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
- (South Africa, chiefly in the plural) A rubber thong sandal.
- (in the plural) See slops.
Synonyms
- (an item of footwear): see list in flip-flop
Etymology 2
Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in c?-sloppe), related to slip.
Noun
slop (countable and uncountable, plural slops)
- (uncountable) Liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud.
- (sometimes in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
- Synonyms: hogwash, swill
- (chiefly in the plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
- (sometimes in the plural) Domestic liquid waste; household wastewater.
- Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
- (dated) Human urine or excrement.
Synonyms
- pig food: slops, hogwash, swill
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
slop (third-person singular simple present slops, present participle slopping, simple past and past participle slopped)
- (transitive) To spill or dump liquid, especially over the edge of a container when it moves.
- I slopped water all over my shirt.
- (transitive) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
- 1950, Howard William Troyer, The salt and the savor (page 58)
- a little Durham bull butted the pail and slopped him with the milk
- 1950, Howard William Troyer, The salt and the savor (page 58)
- (transitive) In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
- (transitive) To feed pigs.
- (intransitive) To make one's way through soggy terrain.
- 1980, The Leatherneck (volume 63, page 13)
- We slopped through paddies in 100-degree-plus heat and slept with one eye open at night.
- 1980, The Leatherneck (volume 63, page 13)
Related terms
- sloppy
Translations
Etymology 3
Alteration of ecilop, from back slang for police.
Noun
slop (plural slops)
- (archaic, costermongers) A policeman.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:police officer
Related terms
- namesclop
Anagrams
- LPOs, lops, pols, splo
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl?p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
slop n (plural sloppen, diminutive slopje n)
- a bad situation
- run-down house, shanty
Synonyms
- (run-down house): krot
Anagrams
- pols
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl??p/
Noun
sl?p m inan
- pillar
Inflection
Derived terms
- slôpen
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