slop shop
English
Alternative forms
- slopshop, slop-shop
Noun
slop shop (plural slop shops)
- (now historical) A shop where slops (ready-made clothes) are sold.
- 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman:
- [H]e was therefore easily prevailed on to bind me apprentice to one of my step-mother's friends, who kept a slop-shop in Wapping.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 189:
- We were therefore under the necessity of sending to a slop shop and each purchasing a shirt, etc.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- Then I began to pity myself, and I saw that it would be a greater charity to bestow on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him
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