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soap
noun- a soap opera, either in the literal sense of a radio or television melodramatic series or in the figurative sense US, 1943
- — American Speech, December 1961
- [S]pecials and the merits of “soaps” and “oaters” (the last two were not commodities, but weepy morning serials for women and western action stories). — Stephen Longstreet, The Flesh Peddlers, p. 189, 1962
- The stereo won’t work and there’s nothing on T.V. except soaps and game shows which I hate. — Beatrice Sparks (writing as “Anonymous”), Jay’s Journal, p. 65, 1979
- We other three had settled down to cruise the soaps for skin. — Ethan Morden, Buddies, p. 123, 1986
- Senora Sarafina Sanchez Bou-Gomez sat on the worn sofa, watching a Spanish soap, knitting a bit, chewing hard chocolate with the ten teeth she had on the top and the fifteen on the bottom. — Odie Hawkins, The Life and Times of Chester Simmons, p. 12, 1991
- the recreational drug GHB US
- The drug’s street name is GHB, or “soap,” or “liquid ecstasy.” — Dallas Morning News, p. 27A, 20 December 1995
- ordinary soap used to fill cracks when using explosives to open a safe US
- I never let it impair my business judgment or my work with the soap and soup. — Red Rudensky, The Gonif, p. 93, 1970
- a bribe US
- — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 55, 1972
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 107, 1996
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