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English
Etymology
From slop + shop.
Noun
slop shop (plural slop shops)
- (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 Johnson, ; and G[eorge,] G and J 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