单词 | soup |
释义 | soup I. 1. often attributive 2. a. < could not culture it in … any of the soups used to grow bacteria — G.W.Gray b.1886 > < manufacture … bookpaper from a soup of shredded woodpulp — Saturday Review > specifically b. < talk airplanes down through the soup by … radar — Boeing Magazine > c. < drove to the powder house … to get some soup for a safecracking job — New York Times > d. < while the prints were in the soup — Florence Haas > e. 3. < caught him red-handed and now he's in the soup > • - from soup to nuts II. < souping the stock engine — Hot Rod Magazine > — usually used with up < engineers had souped up the planes and some could climb as high as 20,000 feet — All Hands > < boys … buy old cars and soup them up — Gregor Felsen > < suspended mikes — souped up to pick up a wider range of sounds — Newsweek > III. 1. slang 2. slang < using a rifle powder in a pistol cartridge can give a load with too much soup > IV. |
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