A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces, In cookery, originally, a liquor with something soaked in it, as a sop of bread; now, a broth; a liquid dish served usually before fish or meat at dinner, an unfortunate situation, verb_ dope (a racehorse), To be in trouble or in difficulty (often passive--cf. in the soup), uncommon To feed_ to provide with soup or a meal, transitive verb_ obsolete To sup or swallow, obsolete To sweep. See sweep, and swoop