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soup noun 1 a liquid food that is made by boiling meat, vegetables, grains, etc together in a stock or in water. 2 a anything resembling soup, eg a thick liquid mixture; b a dense enveloping fog. See also pea-souper; c a rich mixture of organic material that is supposed to have once covered the Earth and from which life is believed to have emerged. Also called primordial soup. 3 colloq, photog the fluid that contains the chemicals for developing film. 4 US colloq nitroglycerine. verb (souped, souping) (usually soup up) colloq to make changes to a vehicle or its engine in order to increase its speed or power. See also soup up under soup. in the soup slang in trouble or difficulty • got caught stealing and landed himself in the soup. soupy adj.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: from French soupe broth.