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  • adjective Without soup.

Etymologies

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soup +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Another thing Chinese people are into is, low mein, which refers to soupless noodles that have been tossed with some light sauce and topped with meat or seafood.

    Breakfast Noodles in Chinatown, Los Angeles - A Tasting of Chiu Chow Soup Noodles e d b m 2009

  • Another thing Chinese people are into is, low mein, which refers to soupless noodles that have been tossed with some light sauce and topped with meat or seafood.

    Archive 2009-03-01 e d b m 2009

  • In Cantonese, we say "Lo Mein" - which means soupless noodles hand-mixed with sauce usually oyster sauce.

    Wonton Time - Wontons On Steroids - Alhambra, SGV e d b m 2006

  • In Cantonese, we say "Lo Mein" - which means soupless noodles hand-mixed with sauce usually oyster sauce.

    Archive 2006-08-01 e d b m 2006

  • So you go back outside to finish your beer, soupless and hungry.

    Archive 2006-08-01 StyleyGeek 2006

  • It certainly isn't enough to send soup and then think no more about it: but it equally isn't enough to reform the world (which can't be done in a flash) and leave people, in the meanwhile, soupless.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • A suddenly disillusioned fan of 12 years, Dela C., writes her review in the form of a breakup letter: Tonight, after waiting an hour in the stank streets, you gave me a steam tray full of soupless dumplings.

    NYT > Home Page By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN 2010

  • The students wanted to take delivery of it, because they had been soupless for the past three days while staging an "occupation" of the law faculty in protest at Israel's actions in Gaza.

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

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