slop1 n Cod-fish which is split, washed, heavily salted and undried; Cp SALT-BULK. Also attrib.
[191211930 COAKER 47 The reason the price was high was because the slop was scarce at St John's. [1914] ibid 84 On the Labrador the usual time for fishing was passed when the coast cleared, the result being that many floaters returned before the fish struck in and those who secured catches, considering time would not permit curing into dry fish, salted their catches heavily. This caused a large over-supply of slop fish. 1966 HORWOOD 350 ... eying the hundred-odd barrels of slop cod that they had now put down into salt bulk.
