cricket vs slop

cricket

noun
  • A wooden footstool. 

  • A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection. 

  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. 

  • A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). 

  • An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. 

  • An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. 

  • A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

slop

noun
  • A rubber thong sandal. 

  • Domestic liquid waste; household wastewater. 

  • A policeman. 

  • Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot. 

  • Inferior, weak drink or semi-liquid food. 

  • Semi-solid like substance; goo, paste, mud, pulp. 

  • See slops. 

  • Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs. 

verb
  • To spill or dump liquid, especially over the edge of a container when it moves. 

  • To make one's way through soggy terrain. 

  • In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot. 

  • To feed pigs. 

  • To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid. 

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