alphabet soup
(figuratively) A cryptic overabundance of acronyms and abbreviations.
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I picked out letters in my alphabet soup to spell out I AM A REAL LIVE BOY AND TOTALLY REALLY CONSCIOUS. My soup is conscious and trying to communicate with me!
For Keller (and Friedman) the alternative to private litigation against bad businesses is "government regulation and the alphabet soup of Washington, DC agencies [that] try and police these companies." 47/
My mother used to call those letters “alphabet soup”
At this point, his brain is a mixture of pudding, sawdust, alphabet soup and squirrel turds.
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(figuratively) A cryptic overabundance of acronyms and abbreviations.
The various engineering teams' correspondence on circuit board design was an alphabet soup to outsiders.
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A type of soup that contains noodles in the shape of various alphabetical letters, sometimes also numbers.
Parents have been entertaining their children at mealtime with alphabet soup since the nineteenth century.
“I picked out letters in my alphabet soup to spell out I AM A REAL LIVE BOY AND TOTALLY REALLY CONSCIOUS. My soup is conscious and trying to communicate with me!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“For Keller (and Friedman) the alternative to private litigation against bad businesses is "government regulation and the alphabet soup of Washington, DC agencies [that] try and police these companies." 47/”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(figuratively, metonymically) A quantity of people or organizations that are referred to by acronyms.
Alphabet soup means: A quantity of people or organizations that are referred to by acronyms.. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
alphabet soup means: A quantity of people or organizations that are referred to by acronyms.. Register: neutral, standard English. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself.
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