Sop Definition

sŏp
sopped, sopping, sops
verb
sopped, sopping
To soak (in, into, or through something)
Webster's New World
To soak, steep, or saturate in or with liquid.
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To take up (liquid) by absorption.
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To be or become thoroughly wet.
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noun
sops
A piece of food, as bread, soaked in milk, gravy, etc.
Webster's New World
Something given by way of concession or appeasement.
Webster's New World
A bribe.
Webster's New World

A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop.

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Gravy. (Appalachian)

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abbreviation
Standard operating procedure.
Webster's New World
Soprano.
American Heritage

Initialism of Sex On [or Over] the Phone.

Wiktionary
Initialism of Standard Operating Procedure.
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(manufacturing) Initialism of Start of Production.

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pronoun

Alternative spelling of Aesop.

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Other Word Forms of Sop

Noun

Singular:
sop
Plural:
sops

Origin of Sop

  • Middle English soppe, from Old English sopp (“sopped bread"), from Proto-Germanic *saupÄ… (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sÅ«panÄ… (“to sup"). More at sup; compare soup.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English soppe bread dipped in liquid from Old English sopp- (in soppcuppe cup for dipping bread in) seuə-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sop Sentence Examples

  • Don't be fooled by the title ' McDonald's goes ' vegan ' - they are just throwing a sop at protesters.

  • He continued to reside at Avignon despite the arguments of envoys and the verses of Petrarch, but threw a sop to the Romans by reducing the Jubilee term from one hundred years to fifty.

  • Is it I. " He said the one to whom I give the sop, he it is who betrays Me.

  • And He dipped the sop and gave it to Judas.

  • In addition, it should have an sop coordinated with the brigade rear CP for conducting emergency moves.

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Words Starting With

SSOSOP

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POPSOP

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Words Starting With S and Ending With P

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