Word.ws English Dictionary

soap up

soap up verb: to cover (something) in soap lather.

Verb

soap up (third-person singular simple present soaps up, present participle soaping up, simple past and past participle soaped up)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To cover (something) in soap lather.
    • I soap up as soon as I get in the shower.
    • He soaped the baby up in the sink.

Forms of soap up

third-person singular presentsoaps up
present participlesoaping up
past participlesoaped up
pastsoaped up

Questions about soap up

What does soap up mean?
Soap up means to cover (something) in soap lather.
What part of speech is soap up?
Soap up is a verb.
What is the past tense of soap up?
The past tense of soap up is soaped up.

Words near soap up in the dictionary

  1. soap suds
  2. soap test
  3. soap tests
  4. soap tree
  5. soap trees
  6. soap up
  7. soap-bubble
  8. soap-bubbles
  9. soap-dispenser
  10. soap-dispensers
  11. soap-dodger

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: soap up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “soap up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/soap_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.