soup [ soup ]
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1. A liquid dish, typically savoury and made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables etc. in stock or water.
Refreshments including soup, brown bread, tea or coffee will be served.
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2. A substance or mixture regarded as resembling soup in appearance or consistency.
The chemical soup contains ten times more salt than seawater.
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3. The chemicals in which film is developed.
4. Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially as used for safe-breaking.
Verb
1. Increase the power and efficiency of an engine or other machine.
I'm typing this from bed, on a seven-year-old laptop that's been souped up and made wireless.
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2. Make something more elaborate or impressive.
Each song is souped up with backing tracks that avoid domination, but power the driving beats of the carefully curated anthems.
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Origin
1. Middle English from Old French soupe ‘sop, broth (poured on slices of bread)’, from late Latin suppa, of Germanic origin.

