sop
IPA: sˈɑp
noun
- Something entirely soaked.
- A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- (Appalachia) Gravy.
- (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
- A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus; something given or done to pacify or bribe. [Something given or done to pacify or bribe.]
- (derogatory) Ellipsis of milksop; a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person. [A piece of bread sopped in milk.]
- (music, informal) Clipping of soprano. [The musical part higher in pitch than alto, typically encompassing the range of the treble clef.]
- Initialism of State of Palestine. [The country established in West Bank and Gaza Strip, including occupied Palestinian territories and those under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority.]
- Initialism of sex on/over the phone.
- Initialism of standard operating procedure.
- (manufacturing) Initialism of start of production.
- (construction) Initialism of setting-out point.
- Initialism of sum of parts. [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sum, of, parts.]
- (Internet) Initialism of same-origin policy. [(Internet) A rule, in web browsers, that permits scripts contained in a first web page to access data in a second web page, but only if both web pages have the same origin (based on URI scheme, hostname, and port number), so as to prevent malicious scripts from accessing sensitive data through the Document Object Model.]
- Initialism of semen on picture.
verb
- (transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
- (intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
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Examples of "sop" in Sentences
- Sugar sop is na o'er digestible to th 'best o' 'em.
- At that moment the sop is given; offer of friendship is once more made -- and how affectingly!
- In captivity these birds have been found to live well upon sweetened milk-sop, which is made by pouring boiling milk upon crumbled bread or biscuit.
- This soup looks wonderful..and I enjoyed reading about "sop" -- thinking about it, soup really is great for dipping bread in, so it really makes sense!
- Then, too, there is the property clause in the Convention of Madrid, which has been described as the sop by means of which the Powers were induced to accept other less favourable stipulations.
- But prices are now, at least in our area, $3.75 or so a gallon, and in the meantime domestic oil companies are making record profits and were just thrown a multi-million dollar sop from the energy bill.
- The utility on Friday said it would begin initial compensation payments of up to ¥1 million, or about $12,000, to residents from an 18-mile zone around the plant—an offer some evacuees called an insufficient, short-term sop.
- Guest Katty Kay of BBC World News America also questioned the strategy, saying that it might be a short-term sop to Obama's left-wing base, but it may end up alienating the independent voters that helped elect the president.
- There are, however, several kinds of fruit besides those which have been already mentioned; particularly the sweet-sop, which is well known to the West Indians, and a small oval fruit, called the _blimbi_, both of which grow upon trees.
- Some have heard that he went thence to Augusta; others aver that in their opinion, he travelled away down into the low country "whar they call sop, gravy; again, some say that a man very much like him was seen travelling in the Cherokee country; and not a few contend that he married, and settled in an adjoining eastern county, leading a quiet and blameless life for many years.
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