shot soup

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shot soup (uncountable)

  1. (nautical, slang, archaic) A weak soup containing whole peas.
    • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas:
      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.
    • 1950, Robert W. Krepps, The Courts of the Lion, page 80:
      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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