Definitions for SOP

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SOP sop

Spelling: [sop]

IPA: /sɒp/

Sop is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in SOP (ops).

Definitions for SOP

noun

1. a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
2. anything thoroughly soaked.
3. something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe:
4. a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop.

verb (used with object)

1. to dip or soak in liquid food:
2. to drench.
3. to take up (liquid) by absorption (usually followed by up):

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become soaking wet.
2. (of a liquid) to soak (usually followed by in).

Origin of SOP

before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English sopp; cognate with Old Norse soppa; (v.) Old English soppian, derivative of the noun (not recorded in ME). See sup

Examples for SOP

To-morrow he will be throwing some sop of reform to the people, and it will be too late for a Republic.

Judas that he was, he took her sop, and then sold her for thirty pieces of silver.

Time was when you all pulled the one way, and a sop to the Pope pleased you all.

This man—this alleged brother, threw him a sop, insulted him by offering him charity.

Liberals regard them as a sop to the wealthy, who receive the largest share of the benefits.

That was one sop to conscience when I remembered that she was a wife.

Cynics, of course, can argue that this is just a sop to Western sensibilities.

A sop to lawmakers who represent congressional districts consisting entirely of catfish ponds.

The sop must not scorch, but the seasoning must be cooked through it.

Taking it on now is strictly Obama's sop to liberals appalled by his spineless obsession with managing public perceptions.