slop basin

1. 1.

   a bowl into which the dregs of teacups and coffee cups are emptied at the table

   Synonymsslop bowl

   Broaderbowl

   United Kingdom

Questions about slop basin

What does slop basin mean?

slop basin means "a bowl into which the dregs of teacups and coffee cups are emptied at the table".

What is another word for slop basin?

Close synonyms include slop bowl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slop basin a common word?

slop basin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.