[soop] 
,| 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. |
| soup (sōōp) n.
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).] |
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In addition to the idiom beginning with soup, also see duck soup; from soup to nuts; in the soup; thick as thieves (pea soup).
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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