a bucket that food scraps and peelings are put into
After meals, all the scraps go into the slop bucket in the kitchen.
2.
a bucket that is used for collecting waste water from washbasins, or from chamber pots (ceramic pots used overnight in bedrooms, in place of a toilet)
the stench of the slop bucket
3.
a bucket containing food scraps and peelings, to be fed to livestock, esp pigs
The dog was eating from the slop bucket.
slop pail in American English
noun
1.
a pail for conveying slop in feeding livestock, esp. pigs
2.
a pail into which household slop is collected for disposal
Also called: slop bucket
Word origin
[1860–65]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Paleolithic, big brother, institutionalism, metric system, pop-up