gumbo
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1 : a soup thickened with okra pods or filé and containing meat or seafoods and usually vegetables
2 : okra sense 1
3a : any of various fine-grained silty soils especially of the central U.S. that when wet become impervious and soapy or waxy and very sticky
b : a heavy sticky mud
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: a rich soup usually thickened with okra
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