slop shop

English

Alternative forms

• slopshop, slop-shop

Etymology

From slop +‎ shop.

Noun

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