[sop] 
,noun, verb, sopped, sop⋅ping.| 1. | a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food. |
| 2. | anything thoroughly soaked. |
| 3. | something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe: The political boss gave him some cash as a sop. |
| 4. | a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop. |
| 5. | to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy. |
| 6. | to drench. |
| 7. | to take up (liquid) by absorption (usually fol. by up): He used bread to sop up the gravy. |
| 8. | to be or become soaking wet. |
| 9. | (of a liquid) to soak (usually fol. by in). |
