slop chest

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   commissary maintained aboard merchant ships to sell merchandise to the crew

   Broadercommissary

Questions about slop chest

What does slop chest mean?

slop chest means "commissary maintained aboard merchant ships to sell merchandise to the crew".

Is slop chest a common word?

slop chest 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.