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; sup ³

Origin of SOP²

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

He stood in the crick, sopping and streaming.

From Literature

They ate most of the meat, leaving a little for day meal, and sopped up the juices with hawkbit roots baked in the embers.

From Literature

My blanket was sopping; when I tried to roll from my spot my body made squelching sounds, suctioned to the damp floor.

From Literature

The storm had left everything sopping wet, but there wasn’t a rain cloud in the sky.

From Literature

She rips open the package of Oreos and dunks one into her glass of milk until it’s sopping wet.

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