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soup
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  2. soup and fish
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  7. soup up
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  10. cream soup
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  12. duck soup
  13. mock turtle soup
  14. pea soup
  15. primordial soup

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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Synonyms
brume, fog, gauze, mist, murk, reek, smog, haze

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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