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Soap   /soʊp/   Listen
Soap

noun
1.
A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
2.
Money offered as a bribe.
3.
Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate.  Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, scoop.
verb
(past & past part. soaped; pres. part. soaping)
1.
Rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning.  Synonym: lather.



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... textiles, soap, furniture, shoes, fertilizer, and cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... battering rams, are mentioned by Sanudo, as well as iron crow's-feet with fire attached, to shoot among the rigging, and jars of quick-lime and soft soap to fling in the eyes of the enemy. The lime is said to have been used by Doria against the Venetians at Curzola (infra, p. 48), and seems to have been a usual provision. Francesco Barberini specifies among the ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... of course, displayed her particular product from the Witch line—detergent, soap, shampoo, cleanser, ...
— Prologue to an Analogue • Leigh Richmond

... second supply came workmen sent over to produce glass, pitch, soap ashes, and other items profitable in England. So rapidly did they begin the search for a source of wealth that "trials" of at least some of the products were sent home when Newport left Jamestown before the end ...
— The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 • Charles E. Hatch

... placed the soap beside them on the ground, and were just about to begin, when a black bird of prey swooped suddenly down, and snatching up the soap, flew away with it, believing it to ...
— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing


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