sop

Meanings

1. Something entirely soaked.
2. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
3. Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus, something given or done to pacify or bribe.
4. Ellipsis of milksop, a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person.
5. Gravy.
6. A thing of little or no value.
7. A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

1. To steep or dip in any liquid.
2. To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

1. Clipping of soprano.

1. Initialism of State of Palestine.

1. Initialism of sex on or over the phone.
2. Initialism of standard operating procedure.
3. Initialism of start of production.
4. Initialism of setting-out point.
5. Initialism of system/systems of provision.
6. Initialism of sum of parts.
7. Initialism of same-origin policy.
8. Initialism of super operator (“an IRC user with special privileges”).
9. Initialism of semen on picture.

1. Alternative letter-case form of SOP (“system/systems of provision”).
2. Alternative letter-case form of SOP (“sum of parts”).

Etymology

From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną (“to sup”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.

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