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soup

15 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. soup (noun)
  2. soup and fish (noun)
  3. soup du jour (noun)
  4. soup kitchen (noun)
  5. soup-meagre (noun)
  6. soup plate (noun)
  7. soup up (verb)
  8. alphabet soup (noun)
  9. bird's nest soup (noun)
  10. cream soup (noun)
  11. cream-soup spoon (noun)
  12. duck soup (noun)
  13. mock turtle soup (noun)
  14. pea soup (noun)
  15. primordial soup (noun)

soup

noun \ˈsüp\

Definition of SOUP

1
: a liquid food especially with a meat, fish, or vegetable stock as a base and often containing pieces of solid food
2
: something (as a heavy fog or nitroglycerine) having or suggesting the consistency or nutrient qualities of soup
3
: an unfortunate predicament <that stunt landed her in the soup>
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Examples of SOUP

  1. <in soup like this, amateur pilots can easily become disoriented>

Origin of SOUP

Middle English soupe, from Anglo-French supe sop, soup, of Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse soppa soup, Old English sopp — more at sup
First Known Use: 14th century

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Rhymes with SOUP

bloop, coop, croup, droop, drupe, dupe, goop, group, hoop, loop, loupe, poop, roup, scoop, sloop, snoop, stoop, stoup, stupe, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop

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