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soup kitchen

noun

  1. a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to people experiencing food insecurity.
  2. Military Slang. (in World War I) a mobile kitchen.


soup kitchen

noun

  1. a place or mobile stall where food and drink, esp soup, is served to destitute people
  2. military a mobile kitchen


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Word History and Origins

Origin of soup kitchen1

First recorded in 1850–55

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Example Sentences

Bach in the Subways is a soup kitchen for a world starving for classical music.

While the soup kitchen was in all accounts a success, there was a major catch.

Michael Daly talks to the soup kitchen's crowd about why the name Francis means so much to them.

Examples can include working at a 7-Eleven, doing filing work at a non-profit, and volunteering at a soup kitchen.

They would meet every day at Rikers, the local soup kitchen, and lunch on the 25-cent chicken pot pie.

He helped to cut down trees and saw them into logs, to cook the food at the soup kitchen.

You will like to know that I have a soup-kitchen at the station here, and I am up to my neck in soup.

I don't quite know who would take my place at the soup-kitchen if I were to leave.

On Monday, the 25th, I went back to work at Adinkerke station, to which place our soup-kitchen has been moved.

She spoke of the heroism of the troops, and stated that since September last she had been running a soup-kitchen for the wounded.

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