Meaning of shot soup | Babel Free

Definitions

A weak soup containing whole peas.

archaic, slang, uncountable

Examples

“Beside this, every other day we had what English seamen call "shot soup" — great round peas, polishing themselves like pebbles by rolling about in tepid water.”

“They ate in relays, surprised to find their appetites good: they wolfed salt junk and a weak concoction of peas in broth called shot soup.”

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