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noun
1.
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
2.
Slang. a thick fog.
3.
Slang. added power, especially horsepower.
4.
Slang. nitroglycerine.
5.
Photography Slang. developing solution.
6.
soup up, Slang.
a.
to improve the capacity for speed or increase the efficiency of (a motor or engine) by increasing the richness of the fuel mixture or the efficiency of the fuel, or by adjusting the engine.
b.
to give spirit or vivacity to; enliven: a political rally souped up by the appearance of the candidates.
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In the soup
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
7.
from soup to nuts,
a.
from the first through the last course of a meal.
b.
from beginning to end; to a complete, encompassing degree; leaving nothing out.
8.
in the soup, Informal. in trouble: He'll be in the soup when the truth comes out.
Origin:
1645–55; 1940–45 for def. 6; < French soupe, Old French souppe, sope < Germanic; compare Dutch sopen to dunk. See sop
1645–55; 1940–45 for def. 6; < French soupe, Old French souppe, sope < Germanic; compare Dutch sopen to dunk. See sop
Related forms
soup·less, adjective
soup·like, adjective
Synonyms
1. broth, stock, potage.
1. broth, stock, potage.
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Word Origin & History
soup
"increase the horsepower of an engine," 1921, probably from soup (n.) in slang sense of "narcotic injected into horses to make them run faster" (1911), influenced by supercharge (v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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in the soup definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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soup definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases
in the soup
In trouble, as in She mailed all the checks with the wrong postage, and now she's really in the soup. [Slang; late 1800s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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