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SOP

noun

a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.

anything thoroughly soaked.

something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe: The political boss gave him some cash as a sop.

a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop.

verb (used with object)

to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy.

to drench.

to take up (liquid) by absorption (usually followed by up): He used bread to sop up the gravy.

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verb (used without object)

to be or become soaking wet.

(of a liquid) to soak (usually followed by in).

Origin:
before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English sopp; cognate with Old Norse soppa; (v.) Old English soppian, derivative of the noun (not recorded in ME). See sup²

Synonyms
3. tip, gratuity, payoff.

Example Sentences

The pasta is cut on traditional bronze dies, resulting in a rough texture designed to sop up the ingredients that dress it.

The granting of access did seem a small sop to international opinion.

Sop up extra liquid with toasted and buttered flour tortillas.

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The pasta is cut on traditional bronze dies, resulting in a rough texture designed to sop up the ingredients that dress it.

The granting of access did seem a small sop to international opinion.

Sop up extra liquid with toasted and buttered flour tortillas.

The main sop to the younger set is that the game is exceptionally easy.

Tear off a chunk of the excellent yeasty rolls and sop up the sauce.

Essentially it was a sop to the unions, both in the sawmills and in the construction industry.

And you can sop our your own oil spills and provide your own pension and health insurance while you're at it.

The main ingredient must have an inherent crispness so it can sop up a dressing without losing its character.

The way this memorial gets added to as a sop to political correctness is especially troubling.

But plain, fluffy nan remained our choice for the best bread with which to sop up the lovely entree sauces.

Sop please don't start to promoting plastic surgery, botox and the like.

In theory, the new spongy substance could sop up heat-trapping gases emitted from the burning of coal or natural gas.

If bread seems a trifling reason to riot, consider that it was far more than something to sop up.

Be sure to serve them over rice to sop up the rich, spicy.

Have lots of crusty bread on hand to sop up the juices.

It comes with slaw, stew, and bread to sop up the stew.

And anything less than the two rates is a sop to the rich and unfair to the poor.

All you need is a stack of hot corn tortillas to sop up the delicious juices.

And it doesn't sop up as much oil as other mushrooms.

Be sure to serve with plenty of rice to sop up the delicious sauce.

There is, admittedly, the occasional sop of a memorable line.

For the director, such casting isn't a sop to political correctness, but a reflection of his city's demographics.

Any additional demand it creates through advertising it gets to sop up at a price it names.

The art was used to sop up ink, given away to fans or destroyed.

Your antenna will sop up all the lightning by sending it straight to the ground through lightning arrestor.

Don't forget to order buns so you can sop up the sauce.

COLLAPSE

Dictionary.com Unabridged

Standard Operating Procedure; Standing Operating Procedure.

Also, S.O.P.

soprano.

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World English Dictionary

sop (sɒp)

—n
1.	(often plural) food soaked in a liquid before being eaten
2.	a concession, bribe, etc, given to placate or mollify: a sop to one's feelings
3.	informal a stupid or weak person

—vb (when intr, often foll by in) , sops, sopping, sopped
4.	(tr) to dip or soak (food) in liquid
5.	to soak or be soaked

[Old English sopp; related to Old Norse soppasoup, Old High German sopfa milk with bread; see sup²]

SOP

—*abbreviation for*
	standard operating procedure

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Word Origin & History

sop

O.E. sopp- "bread soaked in some liquid," (in soppcuppe "cup into which sops are put"), from P.Gmc. *suppo, related to O.E. verb suppan (see sup (2)), probably reinforced by O.Fr. soupe (see soup (n.)). Meaning "something given to appease" is from

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1665, an allusion to the sop given by the Sibyl to Cerberus in Virgil's "Aeneid."

COLLAPSE

Slang Dictionary

sop definition

n.
a drunkard; an alcoholic. : Give the old sop a buck and tell him to beat it.
tv. & in.
to guzzle (liquor). : You've sopped booze long enough. Go home.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage

Abbreviations & Acronyms

SOP
standard operating procedure

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Sop definition

a morsel of bread (John 13:26; comp. Ruth 2:14). Our Lord took a piece of unleavened bread, and dipping it into the broth of bitter herbs at the Paschal meal, gave it to Judas. (Comp. Ruth 2:14.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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