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sop^¹

/sɒp/ UK
/sɑp/ US

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

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.

noun sops · soppe

countable, uncountable Something entirely soaked. The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:
countable, uncountable A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food. […]Hee it is to whom I ſhall giue a ſoppe, when I haue dipped it.
abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, figuratively, uncountable Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus, something given or done to pacify or bribe. Ill Nature, in fine, is not to be Cur’d with a Sop; but on the contrary, Quarrelſome Men, as well as Quarrelſome Currs are worſe for fair Uſage.
abbreviation, countable, derogatory, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of milksop, a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person.
Appalachia, countable, uncountable Gravy.
countable, uncountable A thing of little or no value. Here, in Barcelona, your streets are alive at night, you walk, you eat for hours, you interact, you share your minds. Americans watch their 91 channels of superficial satellite sop. The whole country and everything you've ever believed about it really functions only on the surface.
countable, uncountable A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

verb sops · sopping · sopped

transitive To steep or dip in any liquid. A messe of milke sopt with white bread.
intransitive To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

sop^²

/sɒp/ UK
/sɑp/ US

Rhymes with -ɒp

noun sops

abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of soprano

SOP^³

proper noun

abbreviation, initialism Initialism of State of Palestine

noun SOPs

abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of sex on or over the phone
abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of standard operating procedure
abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of start of production
abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of setting-out point
abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of system/systems of provision As Lockie and Kitto (2000: 5) note, this important dimension is recognized by the SOP approach but they argue that it is “poorly developed in both theorisation and operationalisation.” Furthermore, production activities are privileged in SOP analysis as “determinants of consumption practices” and th
abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of sum of parts In like manner, the "not-SOP/ROP" complement of a system (SOP + ROP) is called the nature of the whole, or the organizing essence of a systemic whole. […] And it is there as an aspect of the whole which differs from the sum of parts (SOP) .
Internet, abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of same-origin policy
Internet, abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of super operator (“an IRC user with special privileges”).
Internet, abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of semen on picture

SoP^⁴

noun SoPs

Alternative letter-case form of SOP (“system/systems of provision”). In retrospect, it is worth mentioning that, going into the 1990s, the range of SoP applications expanded from private commodity consumption to public consumption—especially as the neoliberal drive to denationalize was peaking but being augmented by an accelerating pressure for privatization through
Alternative letter-case form of SOP (“sum of parts”). WiG-SoP? / [ECOSYSTEM (science)] Yes (unequivocal) emergent hierarchical / SCALE / [MANAGEMENT (governance)] No (< SoP?) reductionist sectoral […] WiG-SoP = Whole is Greater than Sum of Parts; […]

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noun something given or done to pacify or bribe

Deutsch	Beruhigungspille, Besänftigungsmittel, Beschwichtigungsmittel
Русский	пода́чка podáčka

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@misc{sop_2026,
  title = {sop},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sop},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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