单词 | soup |
释义 | soup ![]() n. Phrasal Verb: 1. A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces. 2. Slang Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially: a. Dense fog. b. Nitroglycerine. 3. Primordial soup. 4. A chaotic or unfortunate situation. soup up Slang Idiom: To modify (something) so as to increase its capacity to perform or satisfy, especially to add horsepower or greater speed potential to (an engine or a vehicle). in the soup Slang Having difficulties; in trouble. [Middle English soupe, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see seuə-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots. Soup up, from SOUP, material injected into a horse to make it run faster (influenced by SUPERCHARGE).] |
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