"slop shoot" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1878, unknown author, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance, volume 45, J. W. Parker and Son, page 518",
          "text": "The construction and contents of a particular slop-shoot are thus described by Dr. Whitmore[?]. It was a large space of about 200 feet square, built up at the sides to a considerable height by means of paving stones, so that the liquid matter thrown into it should not escape, and this was filled up to a height of some six feet with what is called the “slop” from the streets.",
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          "ref": "1961, J P de Haan, Practical shipbuilding: B, A manual for the construction of seagoing merchant ships and war-ships, from series Ships and Marine Engines, volume 3B, page 149",
          "text": "In every passageway where the passengers’ cabins are situated, there is a steward’s station. This is a small space provided with a working table with either a fixed or a folding seat, a locker for storing cleaning materials and a slop sink (see section 184) or a slop shoot (see section 166 part I)."
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          "ref": "1975, Robert Ludlum, The Road to Gandolfo",
          "text": "“Mac can drink a whole battalion under a mess hall slop shoot.”\n…\n“Get off it, you chickenfucker! Show that hairy ass you call a face or I'll open the slop-shoot and drop in that fucking lipstick! …”",
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        "A waste disposal shoot."
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        "(obsolete) A waste disposal shoot."
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          "ref": "1955, FAETUPAC Songbook, song 37 “Meet Me at the Slopshoot” (scan)",
          "roman": "On the old Wangpoo",
          "text": "Meet me at the slopshoot\nOn the old Wangpoo\nBring along your dipnet\nThere's enough for two.\nWe'll have mashed potatoes\nAnd some Navy stew\nMeet me at the slopshoot"
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          "ref": "1981, testimony of Sergeant Major Crawford, Military Construction Appropriations for 1982: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, page 443",
          "text": "The combined club system. I know years ago when I first came in the Marine Corps, I could go down to the slop shoot—that is what we referred to them as in those days; buy a drink for 10 cents; staff sergeants, 15 cents; officers, 20 cents."
        },
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          "ref": "2004, November 23, Roger Director, NCIS, season 2, episode 7 “Call of Silence”",
          "text": "Ernie Yost: We were in a forty knot gale. The ship was like a roller coaster, up one wave, down the next, and me and Wade were leaning over the railing puking, like we had spent the weekend liberty at the slop shoot."
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          "ref": "2011, John Hornung, Private 1543868, chapter “November 10. We are Going to Celebrate!”",
          "text": "“I have an announcement to make. After tonight’s dance, there will be free beer for all Marines in the slop-shoot.” The slop-shoot is a Marine nickname for the enlisted men’s club. … Some of the Marines had convinced a few of the gals to head to the slop-shoot with them. I hung around for a half hour until the tug of the 3.2 beer dragged me in the direction of the slop-shoot. Off I went."
        },
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          "ref": "2012, Thomas L. Little, A Lonesome Warrior, chapter 7 “Liberty Call”",
          "text": "We would get a one-page typed reply, and we would go to the slop-shoot and editorialize over several cans of beer."
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          "text": "The combined club system. I know years ago when I first came in the Marine Corps, I could go down to the slop shoot—that is what we referred to them as in those days; buy a drink for 10 cents; staff sergeants, 15 cents; officers, 20 cents."
        },
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          "text": "Ernie Yost: We were in a forty knot gale. The ship was like a roller coaster, up one wave, down the next, and me and Wade were leaning over the railing puking, like we had spent the weekend liberty at the slop shoot."
        },
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          "ref": "2011, John Hornung, Private 1543868, chapter “November 10. We are Going to Celebrate!”",
          "text": "“I have an announcement to make. After tonight’s dance, there will be free beer for all Marines in the slop-shoot.” The slop-shoot is a Marine nickname for the enlisted men’s club. … Some of the Marines had convinced a few of the gals to head to the slop-shoot with them. I hung around for a half hour until the tug of the 3.2 beer dragged me in the direction of the slop-shoot. Off I went."
        },
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          "ref": "2012, Thomas L. Little, A Lonesome Warrior, chapter 7 “Liberty Call”",
          "text": "We would get a one-page typed reply, and we would go to the slop-shoot and editorialize over several cans of beer."
        }
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