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• sop
  sop

  noun

  a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
• SOP
  SOP

  abbreviation

  Standard Operating Procedure; Standing Operating Procedure.
• sop.
  sop.

  abbreviation

  soprano.

sop

¹ American  

[sop] / sɒp /

noun

1. a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.

2. anything thoroughly soaked.

3. something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe.

   The political boss gave him some cash as a sop.

   Synonyms:

   payoff, gratuity, tip

4. a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop.

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verb (used with object)

sopped, sopping

1. to dip or soak in liquid food.

   to sop bread in gravy.

2. to drench.

3. to take up (liquid) by absorption (usually followed byup ).

   He used bread to sop up the gravy.

verb (used without object)

sopped, sopping

1. to be or become soaking wet.

2. (of a liquid) to soak (usually followed byin ).

SOP ² American  

Or S.O.P.

abbreviation

1. Standard Operating Procedure; Standing Operating Procedure.

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sop. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. soprano.

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sop ¹ British  

/ sɒp /

noun

1. (often plural) food soaked in a liquid before being eaten

2. a concession, bribe, etc, given to placate or mollify

   a sop to one's feelings

3. informal a stupid or weak person

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verb

1. (tr) to dip or soak (food) in liquid

2. to soak or be soaked

SOP ² British  

abbreviation

1. standard operating procedure

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sop. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. soprano

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Etymology

Origin of sop¹

First recorded before 1000; (for the noun) Middle English; Old English sopp; cognate with Old Norse soppa; verb derivative of the noun; see sup ³

Origin of SOP²

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Instead, it went to a digital wallet controlled by a North Korean named Sim Hyon Sop, according to crypto-analytics firm TRM Labs, which tracked the transactions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

In the first indictment, the government charged a banker based in China, Sim Hyon Sop, 39, along with three cryptocurrency traders with conspiring to convert virtual currency that had been stolen from accounts into dollars.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Also targeted was Sim Hyon Sop for acting on behalf of the Kwangson Banking Corp, an entity previously designated for sanctions by the United States.

From Reuters • Apr. 24, 2023

“The migrants are visible on the Guatemala side, but become invisible crossing into Mexico,” said the Rev. René Sop Xivir of Jesuit Immigrant Services, which serves migrants at the southern border.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2021

That brought on a whole lot of shoving and scrambling and coffee got spilt on Sop.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston