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Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define ...

“Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything,” the ...

Webster, America's oldest dictionary publisher, picked "slop" as 2025's word and say it helped define the year overall.

Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 — and that word is “slop.” The dictionary-maker defines “slop” as ...

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

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"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.