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Chicken soup

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient. countable, uncountable

    "He should have guessed that her great-great-grandmother's secret chicken soup recipe was a can from the store."

  2. 2
    soup made from chicken broth wordnet
  3. 3
    A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "Duct tape is the chicken soup of plumbing."

  4. 4
    A mixed-up mush. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup."

  5. 5
    The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life. countable, historical, slang, uncountable

Etymology

The figurative sense comes from the fact that a folk remedy for colds is serving such soup.

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