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alphabet soups

alphabet soups is the plural of alphabet soup.

Meaning of alphabet soup

Noun

alphabet soup (countable and uncountable, plural alphabet soups)

  1. A type of soup that contains noodles in the shape of various alphabetical letters, sometimes also numbers.
    • Meronym: alfabeto
  2. (figuratively) A cryptic overabundance of acronyms and abbreviations.
    • The various engineering teams' correspondence on circuit board design was an alphabet soup to outsiders.
  3. (figuratively, metonymically) A quantity of people or organizations that are referred to by acronyms.
    • too many three-letter agencies, constituting an alphabet soup
  4. (figuratively, particle) A physical state in which there is a miscellany of different particles, often designated by letters.
    • This part of the neutron star has been described as ‘a rich Greek alphabet soup’.1978, Patrick Moore, 1978 Yearbook of Astronomy, page 172
  5. (slang) The series of preliminary races (denoted by letters) through which drivers must advance to the main event.

Questions about alphabet soups

What is alphabet soups the plural of?
Alphabet soups is the plural of alphabet soup.

Words near alphabet soups in the dictionary

  1. alphabet mafia
  2. alphabet of desire
  3. alphabet oracle
  4. alphabet oracles
  5. alphabet soup
  6. alphabet soups
  7. alphabetagamma
  8. alphabetarian
  9. alphabetarians
  10. alphabetary
  11. alphabeted

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