soups

Noun

soup (countable and uncountable, plural soups)

1. Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
   • Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.
   1. (countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
   2. (uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
2. (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
   • The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together...2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 6:21 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022
   1. (figuratively, slang) Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
   2. (US, figuratively, slang) Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.

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