to soup
- verb
- /suːp/
- NSFW
- The trainer decided to soup the horse before the big race to enhance its speed.
Examples
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The investigation revealed that some trainers soup the horses to ensure they perform better during competitions.
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Many owners choose to soup their racehorses with illegal substances to gain an unfair advantage.
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Wait till I give it a paint job and soup up the engine, man.
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By the way, I can soup up the graphics if you want.
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It's getting souped up for the race.
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You souped this thing up yourself?
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Many of the cars are souped up.
Fiction book (2001) -
Networks is a souped-up ad network for Fortune 500 companies.
Blog text (6) -
Hey, you've really got this thing souped up like this.
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He's got some souped-up diesel.
Synonyms
To give an athlete or animal drugs to make them perform better unfairly
To give someone a substance to make them sleep or act differently
Idioms
- Informal
To try something very difficult that goes wrong and becomes messy
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A hot soup made with chicken and vegetables that people eat for comfort when sick
A soup with pieces of chicken, noodles, and vegetables in hot chicken broth
A thick smooth soup that people make from mushrooms and milk or cream and use in casseroles
- Specialized
A mix of simple chemicals in early oceans that may have formed life
- Archaic
A soup made from the meat of green turtles, often served as a special food
- Specialized
A Pacific shark with fins used for Chinese soup and liver rich in vitamin A
Surface Forms
Etymology
Soup as a verb for giving drugs to a racehorse likely comes from the idea of putting a secret strong mixture into the animal. So to 'soup' a horse is to secretly give it something to change its performance.