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soup-and-fish

soup-and-fish is the alternative form of soup and fish.

Meaning of soup and fish

Noun

soup and fish (usually uncountable, plural soup and fishes)

  1. (dated, slang, usually) Men's formal white tie dress.
    • Not a thing, you notice, about Elmer showing up in the soup and fish—the women thought that was all right. May Wilson even said that he looked well in the outfit.1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post

Forms of soup-and-fish

pluralsoup-and-fishes

Phrases with soup-and-fish

Questions about soup-and-fish

What is soup-and-fish the alternative form of?
Soup-and-fish is the alternative form of soup and fish.

Words near soup-and-fish in the dictionary

  1. soup strainer
  2. soup strainers
  3. soup to nuts
  4. soup up
  5. soup's on
  6. soup-and-fish
  7. soup-and-fish suit
  8. soup-and-fish suits
  9. soup-and-fishes
  10. soup-bowl
  11. soup-bowlful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soup-and-fish (page history and authors); soup and fish (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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