slop bucket

The three of them devise a game that involves kicking the ball through one doorway or the other, and we’re lucky it never lands in the slop bucket or the soup.

Better than being chained up by Captain Smith again with no slop bucket nearby.

Richard is carrying the oatmeal pot for our mess, and James has a slop bucket he has just emptied.

I pick up a slop bucket—my ticket to the ship’s deck.

I start up the ladder carrying the slop bucket carefully.