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soup-and-fish suit

soup-and-fish suit 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 suit

pluralsoup-and-fish suits

Questions about soup-and-fish suit

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

Words near soup-and-fish suit in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soup-and-fish suit (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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