Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.
- noun Slang Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially.
- noun Dense fog.
- noun Nitroglycerine.
- noun Primordial soup.
- noun A chaotic or unfortunate situation.
- idiom (in the soup) Having difficulties; in trouble.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
sup . - noun In cookery, originally, a liquor with something soaked in it, as a sop of bread; now, a broth; a liquid dish served usually before fish or meat at dinner.
- noun A kind of picnic in which a great pot of soup is the principal feature. Compare the like use of chowder.
- An obsolete form of soop, swoop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To sup or swallow.
- noun 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.
- noun an establishment for preparing and supplying soup to the poor.
- noun a ticket conferring the privilege of receiving soup at a soup kitchen.
- transitive verb obsolete To breathe out.
- transitive verb obsolete To sweep. See
sweep , andswoop .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or
stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture. - noun figuratively Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- verb uncommon To
feed : to provide with soup or a meal. - verb To be in trouble or in difficulty (often passive--cf.
in the soup ). - verb photography To
develop (film) in a (chemical) developingsolution .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dope (a racehorse)
- noun an unfortunate situation
- noun any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
- noun liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This he found on inquiry was the soup-kettle of a corps of Janissaries, and always held in high respect; indeed, so distinguishing a characteristic of this body is their _soup_, that their colonel is called Tchorbadgé, or the distributor of soup.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various
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The faint outline of the word soup ghosted across a sooty wall.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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The faint outline of the word soup ghosted across a sooty wall.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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Unum offers a clear guide to the acronym soup of consumer-directed health plans "This Is All About the Money": Pension Fund 'Crisis' a Red Herring, Union Chief Says
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Unum offers a clear guide to the acronym soup of consumer-directed health plans "This Is All About the Money": Pension Fund 'Crisis' a Red Herring, Union Chief Says
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Unum offers a clear guide to the acronym soup of consumer-directed health plans "This Is All About the Money": Pension Fund 'Crisis' a Red Herring, Union Chief Says
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Unum offers a clear guide to the acronym soup of consumer-directed health plans "This Is All About the Money": Pension Fund 'Crisis' a Red Herring, Union Chief Says
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Unum offers a clear guide to the acronym soup of consumer-directed health plans "This Is All About the Money": Pension Fund 'Crisis' a Red Herring, Union Chief Says
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Ever get an SMS and have absolutely no idea what the acronym soup is supposed to impart?
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One word of caution – this soup is a bit heavy on the onions so beware and pick up some mints if you have an after lunch meeting planned.
lea commented on the word soup
Fierce and stupid all dogs are
and some worse. I learned this
early by walking to school
unarmed and unprepared
for big city life, which they
had been bred to for centuries.
The chow who barred my way
snarling through his black lips
taught me I was tiny and helpless
and that if he grew more determined
I could neither talk nor fight,
and my school books, my starred exams,
my hand-woven woolen mittens, a gift
of my grandmother, would fall
to the puddled sidewalk and
at best my cold sack of lunch
might buy me a few moments
to prepare my soul before I slept.
I inched by him, smelling the breath
hot and sour as old clothes.
He did nothing but rave, rising
toward me on his hind legs
and choking against the collar
which miraculously held. Later,
years later, delivering mail
on bicycle in the new California,
I was set on by a four-footted moron
who tore at my trousers even
as I drummed small rocks off
his head
. I dreamed that headbecame soup, and the small eyes stared
out into the bright dining room
of the world’s great dog lovers,
and they ate and wept by turns
while I pedaled through the quiet streets
bringing bad news and good to
the dogless citizenry of Palo Alto.
The shepherd dog without sleep
who guards the gates to sleep wakens
each night as my tiny boat
begins to drift out on the waters
of silence. He bays and bays
until the lights come on, and I
sit up sweating and alarmed, alone
in the bed I came to call home.
Now I am weary of fighting and carry
at all times small hard wafers
of dried essence of cat to purchase
a safe way among the fanged masters
of the avenues. If I must come back
to this world let me do so as the lion
of legend, but striped like an alley cat.
Let me saunter back the exact way
I came turning each corner to face
the barking hosts of earth until they
scurry for cover or try pathetically
to climb the very trees that earlier
they peed upon and shamed. Let their pads
slide upon the glassy trunks,
weight them down with exercise books,
sacks of postcards, junk mail, ads,
dirty magazines, give them three kids
in the public schools, hemorrhoids,
a tiny fading hope to rise above
the power of unleashed, famished animals
and postmasters, give them two big feet
and shoes that don’t fit, and dull work
five days a week. Give them my life.
Philip Levine
March 6, 2009