soap — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   This soap is made from vegetable oil.

2. Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.

   Usage

   • broadly
   • Countable
   • Informal
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   There is liquid soap beside the sink.

   I tried washing my hands with soap, but the stain wouldn't go away.

   She went to the shop to buy soap, but they had run out.

3. Money, specially when used as a bribe.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Slang
   • Uncountable

4. A soap opera.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Informal

5. A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.

   Usage

   • Countable

Verb

1. To apply soap to in washing.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   Soap your hands before rinsing them.

   Be sure to soap yourself well before rinsing.

2. To cover, lather, or in any other manner treat with soap, often as a prank.

   Usage

   • Informal
   • Transitive

   Examples

   Those kids soaped my windows!

3. To be discreet about (a topic).

   Usage

   • Informal
   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   soft-soapsoft-pedalsugar soapdownplay

4. To flatter; to wheedle.

   Usage

   • Dated
   • Slang

   Synonyms

   butter upcajolesweet-talk

Noun

1. thiopental (sodium pentothal)

   Usage

   • Slang
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   'Time? Doesn't have much meaning when they're trying to dry you out. I rather think they gave me a shot of soap at one point.' Soap is intelligence speak for sodium pentathol.

Noun

1. a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats

   Broader terms

   cleansing agentcleansercleaner

2. money offered as a bribe

   Broader terms

   bribepayoff

3. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

   Synonyms

   scoopmaxliquid ecstasygrievous bodily harmgoopGeorgia home boyeasy lay

   Broader terms

   gamma hydroxybutyrateGHB

Verb

1. rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning

   Synonyms

   lather

   Broader terms

   cleanseclean