• (RP) IPA: /sɒp/

sop (plural sops)

1. Something entirely soaked.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:

     The bounded waters / Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, / And make a sop of all this solid globe.

2. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, John 13:26 ↗:

     He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.

   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries

     Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.

3. Something given or done to pacify or bribe.

   • All nature is cured with a sop.

   • 1996, Bernard Knox, Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey:

     The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea.

4. A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
5. (Appalachian) Gravy.
6. (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
7. A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

• Russian: пода́чка

sop (sops, present participle sopping; past and past participle sopped)

1. (transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
2. (intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

1. Initialism of State of Palestine

sop

1. Initialism of sex on/over the phone
2. Initialism of w:Standard Operating Procedure
3. (manufacturing) Initialism of start of production
4. (construction) Initialism of setting-out point