Soup

English Meaning

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.

1. A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.
2. A liquid rich in organic compounds and providing favorable conditions for the emergence and growth of life forms: primordial soup.
3. Slang Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially:
4. Slang Dense fog.
5. Slang Nitroglycerine.
6. A chaotic or unfortunate situation.
7. soup up Slang 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).
8. in the soup Slang Having difficulties; in trouble.