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shot soup

shot soup noun: a weak soup containing whole peas.

Noun

shot soup (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, slang) A weak soup containing whole peas.
    • Beside this, every other day we had what English seamen call "shot soup" — great round peas, polishing themselves like pebbles by rolling about in tepid water.1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
    • They ate in relays, surprised to find their appetites good: they wolfed salt junk and a weak concoction of peas in broth called shot soup.1950, Robert W. Krepps, The Courts of the Lion, page 80

Questions about shot soup

What does shot soup mean?
Shot soup means a weak soup containing whole peas.
What part of speech is shot soup?
Shot soup is a noun.

Words near shot soup in the dictionary

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