slop shop

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Etymology

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From slop +‎ shop.

Noun

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slop shop (plural slop shops)

  1. (now historical) A shop where slops (ready-made clothes) are sold.
    • 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. [], volume I, London: [] J[oseph] Johnson, []; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, [], →OCLC, chapter V, page 86:
      [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