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soup and fishes

soup and fishes is the plural 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

Questions about soup and fishes

What is soup and fishes the plural of?
Soup and fishes is the plural of soup and fish.

Words near soup and fishes in the dictionary

  1. soune
  2. Sounes
  3. Souns
  4. soup
  5. soup and fish
  6. soup and fishes
  7. soup base
  8. soup bases
  9. soup beans
  10. soup bone
  11. soup bones

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