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(US, dated) A container used for urinating or defecating when it is not possible or convenient to use a bathroom or toilet; a bedpan, a chamber pot. Commonly used in hospitals, where it is normally called bedpan. Formerly used in private residences that were without an indoor toilet or bathroom..
"All you fit to do is be Shug's maid... Take out her slop jar, maybe cook her food. You ain't even that good a cook."
"The stage ought to be here," said Miranda, glancing nervously at the tall clock for the twentieth time. "I guess everything's done. I've tacked up two thick towels back of her washstand and put a mat under her slop-jar; but children are awful hard on furniture. I expect we sha'n't know this house a year from now."
Use slop-jar when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Slop-jar means (US, dated) A container used for urinating or defecating when it is not possible or convenient to use a bathroom or toilet; a bedpan, a chamber pot. Commonly used in hospitals, where it is normally called bedpan. Formerly used in private residences that were without an indoor toilet or bathroom..
Common synonyms include bedpan, slop-basin, slop-bowl, slop-pail.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"All you fit to do is be Shug's maid... Take out her slop jar, maybe cook her food. You ain't even that good a cook."
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