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  1. noun A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.
  2. noun A liquid rich in organic compounds and providing favorable conditions for the emergence and growth of life forms: primordial soup.
  3. noun Slang Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially:

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  • The paper printed testimonials from Commissioners Parker and Grant, who certified from Mulberry Street, which they had not left, that the soup was a noble Christian charity, and so thought it evened things up, I suppose. —  The Making of an American
  • I went out and bought two containers of chicken soup from a Chinese joint down the street, some milk, eggs and bread from the corner robbery store and some cigarettes and magazines for Billie and me. —  The Emerald Triangle
  • Janellen said, "Key, if she hadn't" But "the doctor interrupted. —  Where There's Smoke
  • " Made with wet grain, insufficiently cooked and left standing, the cold, scummy soup was already giving off a yeasty whiff of fermentation. —  Drums of Autumn
  • Clay Jackson balanced himself on one leg. —  One False Move
 

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  1. Middle English soupe, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots. Soup up, from soup, material injected into a horse to make it run faster (influenced by supercharge).

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  1. = Dutch soep = Middle High German Greek suppe = Swedish soppa = Danish suppe = Icel.sūpa, soup; from Old French (and F.) soupe, soup, broth, pottage, sop, = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian sopa, soup; from Middle Dutch soppe, sop, a sop, broth, Dutch sop, broth, = Icel.soppa = Swedish soppa, a sop: see sop. Soup is a doublet of sop, derived through Old French, while soup, n., is a native variant of sup.
 

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