soup Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
  2. noun any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
  3. noun an unfortunate situation
    • we're in the soup now
  4. verb dope (a racehorse)

WordNet

Soup noun
Etymology
F. soupe, OF. sope, supe, soupe, perhaps originally, a piece of bread; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. D. sop sop, G. suppe soup. See Sop something dipped in a liquid, and cf. Supper.
Definitions
  1. A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.
Soup transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To sup or swallow. Obs. Wyclif.
Soup transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To breathe out. Obs. amden.
Soup transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop. Obs.

Webster 1913