Definition of soup in English:

soup

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noun

1A liquid dish, typically made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables, etc., in stock or water.
‘a bowl of tomato soup’
- ‘Meat and fish stock soups, grilled jumbo prawns, barbecued chicken, lamb drumsticks and pork spare-ribs are winter specials served on rooftops.’
- ‘The use of fish sauce produces a lighter accent in simmered dishes and soups than the soy sauce of China.’
- ‘It will add a brilliant colour, flavour and aroma to salads, soups, vegetables, grilled fish, roast chicken and, in particular, this dish of roasted double lamb chops with white bean purée.’
- ‘Most sodium in a person's diet comes from eating processed and prepared foods, such as canned vegetables, soups, luncheon meats, frozen foods and commercial baked goods.’
- ‘Their menu offers a host of wholesome dishes, delicious homemade soups, open sandwiches on fresh home-baked bread, ciabattas, wraps and tempting salads.’
- ‘A diet of salad, soups, fish and pasta, with plenty of spring water, juices and herbal teas will leave them detoxed from the inside out.’
- ‘For starters there are forty-two different kinds of mezes, cold dishes, soups and salads all for a modest £2.95 each.’
- ‘I do a lot of the food preparation - I make him home-made soups and pasta dishes and stuff.’
- ‘White meat, which holds its shape and has a bright color and smooth texture, is wonderful for salads, clear soups and pasta dishes.’
- ‘What you don't use of the leaves can be dried and used in vegetable soups or making stocks.’
- ‘Truffles, sauces, soups, meat dishes, desserts all are easy to learn and easy to cook.’
- ‘Some families have pantries that are well-stocked and plentiful; refrigerators bursting with Tupperware containers of homemade sauces and soups and salads.’
- ‘The menu features $4 to $6 appetizers, with soups and salads costing as little as $3 to $8.’
- ‘My mom makes wonderful lentil soup; it's full of protein and extremely healthy.’
- ‘Repeat a few times before adding the cream mixture the hot soup.’
- ‘This substantial soup is almost like dhal in its consistency and flavour.’
- ‘Refreshments including soup, brown bread, tea or coffee will be served.’
- ‘Nick's soup was a rich brown colour and had a full-bodied mushroom flavour.’
- ‘I had crispy chicken with thick noodle soup and mum had seafood with noodles.’
- ‘The soups were equally good; the potato soup was thick and creamy and was served in a deep bowl with a generous helping of croutons.’
2A substance or mixture perceived to resemble soup in appearance or consistency.
‘the waves and the water beyond have become a thick brown soup’
- ‘But more folks than you'd think toss hooks in that brown soup because there are some lunkers in the murky depths.’
- ‘This soup consists of quark building blocks and gluons, the ‘force carriers.’’
- ‘As she hit the water, she pumped her arms to keep herself submerged, but Marcy was no swimmer, especially in this thick soup.’
- ‘And, just as he had feared, the road turned promptly into thick, clinging soup.’
- ‘The ocean swell presses a thick plankton soup into the fjords and channels in the area, forming a base for an impressive array of underwater life forms.’
- ‘I passed plunging gorges, streams in spate, riverbanks ripped open, fields flooded, a brown soup drowning the track.’
- ‘It could be the chemical soup surrounding the cells, not the cells themselves, that's at fault in aging.’
- ‘The chemical soup contains ten times more salt than seawater.’
- ‘There was an intense debate about the chemical soup emitted by the many pulp mills in Europe and North America.’
- ‘We are living in a soup of seething, teeming, tiny organisms upon which all life on this planet is dependent.’
- ‘Smoke from factories, gasoline fumes from automobiles and poisonous chemical gases combine to form a pernicious soup in the air.’
1. 2.1 informal The chemicals in which film is developed.
3US informal Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially as used for safecracking.

Pronunciation

soup

/so͞op/ /sup/

transitive verb

[with object]

1soup something up informal Increase the power and efficiency of an engine or other machine.
- ‘souping up an engine's power can increase pollutants’
- ‘One owner claims to have souped his machine up to 1.067GHz with a simple flip of a few resistors on the new machine's motherboard.’
- ‘Remember that the machine you've just souped up so dramatically is going to need a little more fuel moving forward.’
- ‘The buggies are souped up and the roar of engines, part of the glamour of the sport, is certain to be heard in Easkey, Ballina, Enniscrone, and even 18 miles away in Foxford if the wind is blowing in that direction, not to mention the sand.’
- ‘I bought a car and spent an extra $15,000 to $20,000 souping it up.’
- ‘Much imitated but never really equaled, they were souped up by enthusiasts who added enhanced electronics and programming software.’
- ‘There is a law against selling tobacco to under-16s but not against shops souping up bikes, making them unsafe.’
- ‘I chatted about Switzerland and languages with his father and souping up cars with his brothers.’
- ‘In the mid to late fifties, guys spent all their time souping up older cars with whatever parts they could find.’
- ‘I'm typing this from bed, on a seven-year-old laptop that's been souped up and made wireless.’
Origin
1930s, perhaps influenced by super-.
1. 1.1Make something more elaborate or impressive.
  ‘we had to soup up the show for the new venue’
  ‘To that end, the entire defense has been souped up, as position changes were instituted in the spring to get more speed on the field.’
  ‘The Internet Explorer browser has also been souped up.’
  ‘In fact, the movie's low-rent (by today's standards) technical effects have more soul and charm than the additional footage, which has been souped up with plenty of CGI.’
  ‘I haven't discussed the report here as it sends me into a paroxysm of despair but it is now irrefutable that the evidence against him was souped up.’
  ‘These structurally sound houses will then presumably be sold off to a private concern and souped up for sale, or demolished and replaced with luxury flats to be flogged off to rich Londoners at £250,000 a throw.’
  ‘After a quick patch to make the code easily compilable, the developers have been souping the whole thing up to support modern gaming systems.’
  ‘It is caravan owners who are taking caravanning to a new level of luxury and souping up their vehicles to compete with the most gadget-filled front room.’
  ‘Each song is souped up with backing tracks that avoid domination, but power the driving beats of the carefully curated anthems.’
  ‘They have souped up their childcare programmes in resorts served by direct flights from Edinburgh and Glasgow, offering six full-day or half-day deals instead of the previous five.’
  ‘Since then the organization has souped up its political operation, greatly increasing unity, energy, sophistication and mobilization of staff and members.’

Pronunciation

soup

/so͞op/ /sup/

Phrases

from soup to nuts

North American

informal

From beginning to end; completely.
- ‘I know all about that game from soup to nuts’
- ‘It may be time for another ‘bottom up review’ - another holistic review of defense policy from soup to nuts - that assesses the threat and what it will take to fight it.’
- ‘Yesterday, you got to hear discussions of everything from soup to nuts.’
- ‘And what that means is that that organization has an ability from soup to nuts, top to bottom, to conduct independent operations.’
- ‘We talked about everything from soup to nuts and eventually the conversation turned toward the war.’
- ‘By understanding the process from soup to nuts you can be much more effective in solving user problems and developing a product that delights.’
- ‘The standard model for years and years was to build a TV news station and fill it with everything from soup to nuts.’
- ‘Disc two is a real gem, complete with a 49-minute ‘making of’ documentary that covers the entire production from soup to nuts.’
- ‘They publish handbooks, newsletters, and websites that seek to address charter schools' concerns, from soup to nuts.’
- ‘Yet he remains an enduring icon who sells the public everything from soup to nuts because he doesn't have to sell himself.’
- ‘We purchase all the equipment, lay it out and then, from soup to nuts, run the place.’

in the soup

informal

In trouble.
- ‘I've lost the money—I'm in the soup’
- ‘On the pitch, the team may seem to be in the soup, with several bad results in the wake of their record-breaking unbeaten run coming to an end.’
- ‘The local DJ landed himself in the soup with a few of his listeners over the weekend when he ran an item on ‘Irishisms’.’
- ‘It has now turned into a boomerang which has left the policy makers in the soup with the councillors displaying a deep-seated opposition to the plan for an incinerator.’
- ‘They are in the soup over the spelling of 'palate' in a press release trumpeting the fact that the eatery would be opening in September.’
- ‘Many indignant customers led the vigilance officers straight to the errant trader who had got them in the soup.’
- ‘A band of robbers landed in the soup when they hailed what they thought was a taxi but which turned out to be a police car.’
- ‘There is a blistering certainty the entire scheme will go belly up, leaving Gray deeper in the soup.’
- ‘It would break my heart to see him in the soup.’
- ‘What's more, live action is in the soup; merchandising is off; video sales are down; the parks have reached the limits of growth.’
- ‘Furthermore, something kept telling him that this time he could really be in the soup and that in future he really would have to stop and think before he ever did anything like that again.’