SOP

/sɔp/
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Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A piece of food soaked in liquid: A small piece of solid food, such as bread, that is dipped or soaked in a liquid like soup, gravy, or sauce.
    • A concession or bribe: Something given to pacify, calm, or appease someone, often to gain favor or to quiet dissatisfaction.

  2. Verb:

    • To dip or soak in liquid: To absorb or become saturated with a liquid, especially by dipping.
    • To make thoroughly wet: To drench or soak something.
    • To give a conciliatory gift or bribe: To offer something to appease or mollify someone.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • He used a piece of bread as a sop to soak up the last of the soup.
    • The small pay raise was just a sop to the unhappy employees.

  • Verb:

    • She sopped the crusty bread in the rich stew.
    • His clothes were sopped through after walking in the storm.
    • The company tried to sop the critics with vague promises of future improvements.
Advanced Usage
  • "A sop to Cerberus": An idiom meaning a bribe or concession given to pacify a troublesome person or opponent. It originates from the mythological practice of giving honey cakes to the three-headed dog Cerberus to appease him.
    • The tax cut for the wealthy was seen as a sop to Cerberus for the powerful lobbyists.
Variants and Related Words
  • Sopping (adj./adv.): Extremely wet; dripping wet.
    • He came in from the rain, sopping wet.
  • Soppy (adj.): Sentimental in a weak or silly way; also, very wet.
    • She loves watching soppy romantic movies.
    • The ground was soppy after the thaw.
Synonyms
  • Noun (food): Morsel, piece, dunk.
  • Noun (concession): Pacifier, appeasement, conciliation, bribe, peace offering.
  • Verb (soak): Saturate, drench, soak, steep, dunk.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Sop up: To absorb or take up (a liquid).
    • Use this towel to sop up the spilled milk.
Related Idioms
  • "Sop in the pan" (archaic): A tasty morsel; a piece of bread fried in the dripping from meat.
    • The phrase is rarely used in modern English but can be found in historical texts.
Noun
  1. a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely
    • rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries
  2. a concession given to mollify or placate
    • the offer was a sop to my feelings
  3. piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid
Verb
  1. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
    • souse water on his hot face
  2. dip into liquid
    • sop bread into the sauce
  3. be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
  4. give a conciliatory gift or bribe to

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