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1. A concession given to mollify or placate
   "the offer was a sop to my feelings"
    
2. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid
   - sops

1. Give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
    
2. Be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
   - soak through
    
3. Dip into liquid
   "sop bread into the sauce"
    
4. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
   "sop water on his hot face";
   - drench, douse, dowse, soak, souse

1. A prescribed procedure to be followed routinely
   "rote memorization has been the educator's SOP for centuries";
   - standing operating procedure, standard operating procedure, standard procedure

Derived forms: sops, sopping, sopped

Type of: bit, bite, bribe, buy, concession, corrupt, dip, douse, dunk, grease the palm of, morsel, ooze through, operating procedure, plunge, souse, wet

Encyclopedia: Sop