Definition of "soup" []

• A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces. (noun)
• A liquid rich in organic compounds and providing favorable conditions for the emergence and growth of life forms: primordial soup. (noun)
• Slang Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially: (noun)
• Slang Dense fog. (noun)
• Slang Nitroglycerine. (noun)

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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 faint outline of the word soup ghosted across a sooty wall."
• "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"