chicken soup en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Originally, any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient. The figurative sense comes from the fact that the soup is a folk remedy for colds.
Meanings
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable) A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.
Duct tape is the chicken soup of plumbing.
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable) A mixed-up mush.
His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.
- (countable, historical, slang, uncountable) The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| chicken soups | Number=Plur | lexicographic |