1
chiefly dialectal
: a piece of food dipped or steeped in a liquid
2
: a conciliatory or propitiatory bribe, gift, or gesture
standard operating procedure; standing operating procedure
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Examples of sop in a Sentence
Noun
as a sop to the teachers' union for supporting his reelection campaign, the mayor promised to push for the abolition of the residency requirement
Verb
sopped the sponge with the detergent and began scrubbing the floor vigorously
my book fell in the swimming pool and was thoroughly sopped before I could fish it out
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Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
Some Republicans are portraying the continuation of subsidies as a sop to health insurers.
—Peter Sullivan, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
More and more of them are now being made to be sopped, as much as in a margarita or any of the myriad cocktails issued by bartenders and producers.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Noun
But these are just MacGuffins: sops to the Beltway superfans.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
Some Republicans are portraying the continuation of subsidies as a sop to health insurers.
—Peter Sullivan, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
Verb
Pluto’s insides may be sopping wet For a frigid planet, Pluto may be hiding a sloshy surprise roughly 125 miles beneath its shell.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
More and more of them are now being made to be sopped, as much as in a margarita or any of the myriad cocktails issued by bartenders and producers.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Sop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sop. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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sop
1 of 2 noun1
chiefly dialect
: a piece of food dipped or soaked in a liquid (as bread dipped in milk or gravy)
2
: a bribe or gift for soothing or winning approval
sop
2 of 2 verb
sopped; sopping
1
a
: to soak or dip in or as if in liquid
b
: to wet thoroughly
2
: to mop or soak up
sopping up gravy with bread
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