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Definition of Slopwork
1. n. The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
Definition of Slopwork
1. Noun. The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing. ¹
2. Noun. Clothing of this kind. ¹
3. Noun. (figuratively) Hasty, slovenly work of any kind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slopwork
1. the manufacture of cheap clothing [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slopwork
Literary usage of Slopwork
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Template-Makers of the Paris Basin: Toichological Techniques for by John James (1989)
"... INTENTION: to show the inevitable slopwork locations wherever the mortar had
to be left to harden JL HIS CHAPTER establishes that even in the Sainte- ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"Why don't you go to slopwork, s admired depot, And get yourself dressed like a
... What a splendid assortment does slopwork keep, What spicy clothes, ..."
3. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1878)
"slopwork.—Having obtained a small ... descriptive of the patent " slopwork " re-
erred to by "A Lover of the Art," with much pleasure I reply to his query. ..."
4. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1882)
"To put mainspring in barrel of Geneva, you must unpin the slopwork at the back
... replacing the slopwork, set the spring up half a torn,—С. В. В. [46187. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"It has already produced almost a revolution in that most miserable of all
occupations known as slopwork, in which grown-up women were rarely able to earn ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"Not ours to trace the particulars of that wretched career, which finally k-ft
him the denizen of a squalid garret, junt able, through precarious slopwork, ..."
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