subs. phr. (colloquial).—1. A blunder. As adj. = slovenly, inaccurate: cf. SLIPSHOD.
1797. BURNEY, Diary, iv. 14. He told us a great number of comic SLIP-SLOPS of the first Lord Baltimore, who made a constant misuse of one word for another.
1849. C. KINGSLEY, Alton Locke, xxxviii. His … SLIP-SLOP trick of using the word natural to mean, in one sentence, ‘material,’ and in the next, as I use it, only ‘normal and orderly.’
2. (common).—In pl. = shoes (or slippers) down at the heels: also (Norfolk) SLIP-SHOE.
Adj. (colloquial).—Here and there; ‘all over the shop’: also SLIP-SLAP and verb.
1721. CENTLIVRE, The Artifice, iii. I ha’ found her fingers SLIP-SLAP this a-way, and that a-way, like a flail upon a wheat-sheaf.
1870. FARJEON, Grif, 105. The dirty broken bluchers in which Grif’s feet SLIP-SLOPPED constantly.
See SLOP.
