Meaning of Slop | Babel Free
slɒpDefinitions
- A policeman.
- A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
- Semi-solid-like substance; goo, paste, mud, pulp.
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A flip-flop. South-Africa, in-plural
- Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
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Inferior, weak drink or semi-liquid food. countable, in-plural, uncountable
- Human urine or excrement.
- Domestic wastewater.
- Liquid carelessly spilled upon a surface; a soiled spot.
- Fellatio.
- A dance popular in the 1960s.
- Content or entertainment which is worthless, or produced and consumed mindlessly.
- Junk output from generative artificial intelligence published in large quantities, posing as human-made content.
Examples
“All on my dick, she won't stop, yah”
“Do the monkey, do the pony”
“In a night spent surfing the television “datasphere” (to use another Cyberia buzzword), you can watch slop like Knight Rider 2010 (where virtual reality is a weekly plot point)”
“We don't have a half-naked, barely-sentient scream queen on the cover. We don't give a shit about big-budget Hollywood slop. We don't focus exclusively on obsessive fanboy genres.”
“His post describes a sense of unease, paranoia and loneliness, expressing deep disappointment at the state of the modern internet. He suggests that AI has successfully drowned out the majority of online human activity, reshaping the internet into a more controlled, algorithmic form that exists only to sell products and ideas.”
“Almost all of the AI-generated slop online is peddled for clicks on social media, not published by major news outlets. These publications still get tripped up, of course, but it's rare.”
“Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content”
““Society needs concise ways to talk about modern A.I. — both the positives and the negatives,” he said. “‘Ignore that email, it’s spam,’ and ‘Ignore that article, it’s slop,’ are both useful lessons.””
“In many ways, political slop is a logical end point for these image generators, which seem most useful for people trying to make a quick buck.”
““Coca-Cola just put out an ad and ruined Christmas,” Dylan Pearce, one of the campaign’s many critics, said on TikTok, adding, “To put out slop like this just ruins the Christmas spirit.””
“With slop, it's not so much about what the content says, or whether it's any good, than the fact that it exists and can be measured as a pageview, an ad impression, or a fake recipe book sold to a confused internet user.”
“Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak. After hearing the slop tell his tale, he says to me: 'What do you know of this man? […]”
“Covey’s most stimulating impression on the sense of colour is in the blue of the police. He says he shouldn’t have thought that there were so many ‘slops’ in the world, and he seems to yield for a moment to the depressing conviction that we are too much governed.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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