Definitions for soup

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soup soup

Spelling: [soop]

IPA: /sup/

Soup is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in soup (opsu).

Definitions for soup

noun

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, especially horsepower.
4. Slang. nitroglycerin.
5. Photography Slang. developing solution.

Idioms

1. 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.
2. in the soup, Informal. in trouble:

Verb phrases

1. soup up, Slang. 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:

Origin of soup

1645-55; 1940-45 for def 6; French soupe, Old French souppe, sope Germanic; compare Dutch sopen to dunk. See sop

Examples for soup

Why, at that fellow's house he gives you that claret wine as warm as soup.

Andy always thought big, and went for big, simple, slam- bang images— soup Cans, Dollar Signs, Torsos, Skulls.

Andy always thought big, and went for big, simple, slam- bang images—soup Cans, Dollar Signs, Torsos, Skulls.

(b) In what ways should soup accompaniments be a contrast to the soup?

(a) Explain in full the meaning of stock as applied to soup.

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

By nightfall, I had showered, eaten some soup that a friend brought me, and I slept in my room for 12 solid hours.

You must have your soup, and (I do not mean to be pathetic) what is soup without salt?

They begged for food and were given a 100-pound bag of rice with no soup kind and no one to cook for them.

They may be placed in the soup tureen or in each person's soup.