soup

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.

to give spirit or vivacity to; enliven: a political rally souped up by the appearance of the candidates.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Idioms

from soup to nuts,

from the first through the last course of a meal.

from beginning to end; to a complete, encompassing degree; leaving nothing out.

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

Related forms

soup·less, adjective

soup·like, adjective

Synonyms
1. broth, stock, potage.

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World English Dictionary

soup (suːp)

—n
1.	a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, vegetables, etc, usually served hot at the beginning of a meal
2.	informal a photographic developer
3.	informal See also peasouper anything resembling soup in appearance or consistency, esp thick fog
4.	a slang name for nitroglycerine
5.	informal in the soup in trouble or difficulties

[C17: from Old French soupe, from Late Latin suppa, of Germanic origin; compare Middle High German suppe, Old Norse soppa soup]

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Word Origin & History

soup

"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).

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.).

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Slang Dictionary

soup definition

n.
nitroglycerin, a liquid explosive. (Underworld.) : Lefty was a master with the soup till he blew off his hand.

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

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).

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soup

liquid food prepared by cooking meat, poultry, fish, legumes, or vegetables with seasonings in water, stock, milk, or some other liquid medium. The cooking of soup is as ancient as the devising of vessels to hold liquid; before the development of pots that could withstand the direct heat of a fire, soups were cooked by dropping hot stones into the liquid. The long cooking of soup enabled nourishment to be drawn from meagre quantities of fish and meat too bony or tough to be otherwise utilized.

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Example sentences

Along the way, freeze small amounts of leftovers to include in soup later.

Can be served as a dessert or as a dish following soup.

And yet its taste is as nothing compared with the taste of the soup in this

nameless dark alley.

Hart leaned over the table to spoon some chicken noodle soup from a bowl.