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sops

sops is the plural of sop.

sops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sop.

Meaning of sop

Noun

sop (countable and uncountable, plural sops)

  1. Something entirely soaked.
    • The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
    • […]Hee it is to whom I ſhall giue a ſoppe, when I haue dipped it.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 13:26, column 1
  3. (Appalachia) Gravy.
  4. A thing of little or no value.
    • Here, in Barcelona, your streets are alive at night, you walk, you eat for hours, you interact, you share your minds. Americans watch their 91 channels of superficial satellite sop. The whole country and everything you've ever believed about it really functions only on the surface.1988 August 20, Rex Wockner, “Nobody Can Do It Like The USA”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 5
  5. A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

See all 7 meanings of sop

Noun (1) capitalized: SOPs

SOPs

  1. (plural) plural of SOP

Noun (2) capitalized: SoPs

SoPs

  1. (plural) plural of SoP

Phrases with sops

Questions about sops

What is sops the plural of?
Sops is the plural of sop.
What part of speech is sops?
Sops is a noun.

Words near sops in the dictionary

  1. soprillos
  2. Sopris Creek
  3. soprocide
  4. sopromidine
  5. Sopron
  6. sops
  7. sops of wine
  8. sops up
  9. sops-in-wine
  10. sopsavine
  11. sopsavines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sops (page history and authors); SOPs (page history and authors); SoPs (page history and authors); sop (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.

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