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slop-shop
A place where ready-made clothing for seamen is sold, not at all advantageously to Jack.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Slop
·vt To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
II. Slop ·noun Mean and weak drink or liqu...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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slop
Tea. How the blowens lush the slop. How the wenches drink tea!
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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slop
under-wood when growing. Norf. and Suffolk.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Shop
·- imp. of Shape. Shaped.
II. Shop ·vi To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
III. Sh...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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shop
A prison. Shopped; confined, imprisoned.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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slop seller
A dealer in those articles, who keeps a slop shop.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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slop-book
A register of the slop clothing, soap, and tobacco, issued to the men; also of the religious books s...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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slop-room
The place appointed to keep the slops in, for the ship's company; generally well aft and dry.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bucket shop
·- An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stock...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Shop talk
·add. ·- discussion about a matters pertaining to person's occupation;
— often used of such discuss...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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buttocking shop
A brothel.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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go shop
The Queen's Head in Duke's court, Bow street, Covent Garden; frequented by the under players: where ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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gospel shop
A church.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ironmonger's shop
To keep an ironmonger's shop by the side of a common, where the sheriff sets one up; to be hanged in...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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knack shop
A toy-shop, a nick-nack-atory.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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nyp shop
The Peacock in Gray's Inn Lane, where Burton ale is sold in nyps.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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pantile shop
A presbyterian, or other dissenting meeting house, frequently covered with pantiles: called also a c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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schism shop
A dissenting meeting house.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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whistling shop
Rooms in the King's Bench and Fleet prison where drams are privately sold.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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apple dumplin shop
A woman's bosom.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bow-wow shop
A salesman's shop in Monmouth-street; so called because the servant barks, and the master bites.
Se...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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slap-bang shop
A petty cook's shop, where there is no credit given, but what is had must be paid DOWN WITH THE READ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Long Shop in Cheap
A long shop or shed encroaching on the high street before the wall of St. Peter's church in Cheap wa...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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hand and pocket shop
An eating house, where ready money is paid for what is called for.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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two to one shop
A pawnbroker's: alluding to the three blue balls, the sign of that trade: or perhaps to its being tw...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose