[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). |
| Standard Operating Procedure; Standing Operating Procedure. |
| a set of fixed instructions or steps for carrying out usually routine operations. Abbreviation: SOP |
| sop (sŏp) tr.v. sopped, sop·ping, sops
[From Middle English soppe, bread dipped in liquid, from Old English sopp- (in soppcuppe, cup for dipping bread in); see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
| SOP abbr. standard operating procedure |
Sop
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.)
| SOP standard operating procedure |