shot soup

noun

A weak soup containing whole peas.

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Meanings

nounshot soup (uncountable)
  1. archaicslanguncountablenauticalA weak soup containing whole peas.

    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.

    1950, Robert W. Krepps, The Courts of the Lion, page 80
    1 more example

    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.

    1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
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