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Soap

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Noun

1. soap

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

2. soap

money offered as a bribe

3. easy lay, georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, scoop, soap

street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

Verb

4. lather, soap

rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Soap

see synonyms of soap
noun
1. 
a cleaning or emulsifying agent made by reacting animal or vegetable fats or oils with potassium or sodium hydroxide. Soaps often contain colouring matter and perfume and act by emulsifying grease and lowering the surface tension of water, so that it more readily penetrates open materials such as textiles
See also detergent ▶ Related adjective: saponaceous
2. 
any metallic salt of a fatty acid, such as palmitic or stearic acid
See also metallic soap
3. slang
flattery or persuasive talk (esp in the phrase soft soap)
4. informal short for soap opera
5. US and Canadian slang
money, esp for bribery
6.  no soap
verb
7. (transitive)
to apply soap to
8. (transitive; often foll by up) slang
a. 
to flatter or talk persuasively to
b. US and Canadian
to bribe

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Soap

see synonyms of soap
noun
1. 
a substance used with water to produce suds for washing or cleaning: soaps are usually sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids, produced by the action of an alkali, as caustic soda or potash, on fats or oils
2. 
any metallic salt of a fatty acid
3.  US, Slang
soap opera
: also ˈsoaper
verb transitive
4. 
to lather, scrub, etc. with soap

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Soap

see synonyms of soap
n.
1. A cleansing agent, manufactured in bars, granules, flakes, or liquid form, made from a mixture of the sodium salts of various fatty acids of natural oils and fats.
2. A metallic salt of a fatty acid, as of aluminum or iron, that is not water soluble and may be used as a lubricant, thickener, or in various coating applications, ointments, or disinfectants.
3. Slang Money, especially that which is used for bribery.
4. A soap opera.
tr.v. soaped, soap·ing, soaps
1. To treat or cover with or as if with soap.
2.
a. Informal To softsoap; cajole.
b. Slang To bribe.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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