souping Definition

soup
noun

1. A liquid food that is made by boiling meat, vegetables, grains, etc together in a stock or in water.
2a. Anything resembling soup, eg a thick liquid mixture;
2b. A dense enveloping fog. See also pea-souper;
2c. A rich mixture of organic material that is supposed to have once covered the Earth and from which life is believed to have emerged. Also called primordial soup.
3. photog., colloq
The fluid that contains the chemicals for developing film.
(US)
4. colloq
Nitroglycerine.

verb

souped, souping
1. colloq
To make changes to a vehicle or its engine in order to increase its speed or power. See also souped-up.
Form: soup up (usually)

Idiom: in the soup

slang
In trouble or difficulty.
Example: got caught stealing and landed himself in the soup

Derivative: soupy
adj

Etymology: 16c: from French soupe broth.