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Three-Melon Soup(recipes)
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soup noun. [su:p] ME.
[Old & mod. French soupe sop, broth poured on slices of bread, from late Latin suppa, from verb meaning 'soak', ult. from Germanic. Cf. SOP noun1, SUP verb1.]
A usu. savoury liquid food made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables, etc., with seasoning in stock or water, and freq. served as a first course; a dish or variety of this. ME.
chicken soup, onion soup, tomato soup, etc.
Vogue For a more elegant soup, the chopped herb can be mixed with the sour cream.
b. Biology. A solution rich in organic compounds which made up the primitive oceans of earth and was the environment in which cellular life originated. Also primordial soup. M20.
a. Law. sing. & (occas.) in pl. Dock briefs. slang. M19.
b. Fog; thick cloud. Cf. PEA-SOUP 2. colloq. E20.
J. Gores Ballard watched the taillights recede into the soup.
c. Nitroglycerine or gelignite, esp. as used for safe-breaking. US slang. E20.
d. The chemical mixture used to develop photographic film. slang. E20.
e. Surfing. Foam produced by a broken wave. M20.
Comb. & phrases: from soup to nuts N. Amer. colloq. from beginning to end; completely; in the soup colloq. in difficulties, in trouble; soup and fish colloq. men's evening dress, a dinner suit; soup-bone a bone used to make stock for soup; soup bunch US dial. a bundle of vegetables sold for making soup; soupfin (shark) any of several slender grey sharks having a large dorsal fin, of the genus Galeorhinus; esp. G. zyopterus, found off the Pacific coast of N. America and once hunted for its liver and fins; soup-kitchen a place dispensing free soup etc. to the poor or unemployed; soup line US a queue for food at a soup-kitchen; soup maigre [French soupe maigre] thin (esp. vegetable or fish) soup; soup man slang a safe-breaker using nitroglycerine etc.; soup-plate a deep wide-rimmed plate in which soup is served; soup-spoon a large round-bowled spoon for drinking soup; soup-stock: used as a base for making soup; soup-strainer colloq. a long moustache; soup-ticket: entitling a person to receive soup from a soup-kitchen.