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noun ADJ. chunky, creamy, hearty, thick hearty vegetable soup | clear, thin | hot | cold | home-made | condensed, dried, packet, tinned | chicken, tomato, etc. QUANT. bowl, cup, mug | packet, tin VERB + SOUP cook, make, prepare | bring to the boil, heat (up), simmer | have We had a cold cucumber soup as a starter. | drink, eat (Eat is the normal verb when the soup is served in a bowl.) | slurp Don't slurp your soup! | ladle (out), serve He ladled out three bowls of soup. SOUP + NOUN bowl, dish, plate, tureen | spoon | kitchen (= a place where soup and other food is supplied free to people with no money) PHRASES a bowl/cup/mug of soup, a packet/tin of soupFOOD
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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soup sth up
[ M ] informal
to make something more powerful or more attractive by making changes to it, especially when it is old
• New circuit boards can be used to soup up existing machines.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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soup
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + soup
chicken/tomato etc soup
• We both had chicken soup.
hot
• They serve hot soup from mobile kitchens.
thick
• Lunch consisted of a thick vegetable soup.
creamy
• A rich creamy potato soup starts the meal.
homemade
• Homemade soup can be had for $2.50 a bowl.
canned
( also tinned British English )
• She heated up some tinned soup.
phrases
a bowl of soup
• Could I have a bowl of soup?
a cup/mug of soup
• He got a cup of soup from the machine.
a can of soup
( also a tin of soup British English )
• I opened a can of mushroom soup.
soup + NOUN
a soup bowl/plate
• Russell pushed his empty soup bowl away.
a soup spoon
(= a spoon with a rounder part that you eat from than an ordinary spoon )
a soup tureen
(= a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served )
• She lifted the lid of the soup tureen.
verbs
eat/drink soup
• We chatted as we ate our spinach soup.
ladle soup out/into a bowl
(= serve it using a large spoon )
• Ladle the soup into warm bowls and garnish with parsley.
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