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slop around

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slop something around
to spill portions of a liquid here and there. Don't slop the milk around as you pour it. Please don't slop around the paint while you work.
See also: around, slop

slop around 

1. [for someone] to splash around in a body of liquid, such as a bath. Timmy was in his bath, slopping around and singing. Bob is out in the pool, slopping around.
2. [for a liquid] to splash or rush around in a container. The water was slopping around in the bottom of the boat even though the lake we were traveling on was calm. There is some coffee left. I hear it slopping around in the bottom of the pot.
See also: around, slop


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s gas tank because the additional gas is just going to slop around or seep out.
It is difficult to understand how a series which involves nothing more stimulating than watching not very appetising people slop around a stage set like bears in a pit, reacting to the stress of incarceration, boredom and being spied-on by sleeping, eating, scratching themselves and being unpleasant to each other (disguised on occasion as aggressive sexual interest), has managed to last so long.
Seven of the last eight Masters have been rain-affected and players and spectators alike forced to slop around in mud.
 
 
 
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