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soup 
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| 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, esp. horsepower. |
| 4. | Slang. nitroglycerine. |
| 5. | Photography Slang. developing solution. |
| 6. | soup up, Slang.
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| 7. | from soup to nuts,
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| 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; < F soupe, OF souppe, sope < Gmc; cf. D sopen to dunk. See sop]
] —Related forms
soupless, adjective
souplike, adjective
—Synonyms 1. broth, stock, potage.
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n.
Phrasal Verb(s): soup up Slang To modify (something) so as to increase its capacity to perform or satisfy, especially to add horsepower or greater speed potential to (an engine or a vehicle). Idiom(s): in the soup Slang Having difficulties; in trouble. [Middle English soupe, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots. Soup up, from soup, material injected into a horse to make it run faster (influenced by supercharge).] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
soup (n.)
"liquid food," 1653, from Fr. soupe "soup, broth," from L.L. suppa "bread soaked in broth," from a Gmc. source (cf. M.Du. sop "sop, broth"), from P.Gmc. base *supp-, from PIE *sub-, from base *seue- "to take liquid" (see sup (2)). Primordial soup is from a concept first expressed 1929 by J.B.S. Haldane. Soup kitchen is attested from 1839. In Ireland, souper meant "Protestant clergyman seeking to make proselytes by dispensing soup in charity" (1854).
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
soup (v.)
"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, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| soup | |
noun | |
| 1. | liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food |
| 2. | any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup |
| 3. | an unfortunate situation; "we're in the soup now" |
verb | |
| 1. | dope (a racehorse) |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
soup
In addition to the idiom beginning with soup, also see duck soup; from soup to nuts; in the soup; thick as thieves (pea soup).
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
soup [suːp] noun
a liquid food made from meat, vegetables etc
Example: She made some chicken soup.
soup verbExample: She made some chicken soup.
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soup up to improve the performance of a car or motor-cycle by making its engine more powerful etc
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Soup
Sop\, n. [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. s?pan to sup, to sip, to drink, D. sop sop, G. suppe soup, Icel. soppa sop. See Sup, v. t., and cf. Soup.]1. Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. --John xiii. 26. Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself. --Bacon. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. --Shak. 2. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology. All nature is cured with a sop. --L'Estrange. 3. A thing of little or no value. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. Sops in wine (Bot.), an old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine. Garlands of roses and sops in wine. --Spenser. Sops of wine (Bot.), an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Soup
Soup\, n. [F. soupe, OF. sope, supe, soupe, perhaps originally, a piece of bread; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. D. sop sop, G. suppe soup. See Sop something dipped in a liquid, and cf. Supper.] A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth. Soup kitchen, an establishment for preparing and supplying soup to the poor. Soup ticket, a ticket conferring the privilege of receiving soup at a soup kitchen.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Soup
Soup\, v. t. To sup or swallow. [Obs.] --Wyclif.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Soup
Soup\, v. t. To breathe out. [Obs.] --amden.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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