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Meaning soap meaning

What does soap mean?
Definitions in simple English

soap

Soap is a solid or liquid that you use to wash things. The soap slipped out of her hand in the shower. We washed the dog with soap and water. The soap bubbles filled the sink.

soap

If you soap something, you put soap on it. I soaped her hair while my daughter splashed in the bath.

soap

a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate money offered as a bribe rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning

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Topics soap topics

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Examples soap examples

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Simple sentences

Wash your hands with soap.
They wash their hands with soap.
I always wash my face with soap and water.
Life is like a soap bubble.
If a dog bites you, wash the wound with soap and water.
I swallowed a soap bubble when I was washing my face while singing.
I got soap in my eyes.
This soap lathers up with water.
Soap helps remove the dirt.
I need some soap.
There's no soap.
Soap has the property of removing dirt.
This soap is infused with natural fragrances.
There isn't any soap.
Soap, please.
Didn't you find a piece of white soap on my table?
What's your favorite brand of soap?
We wash our hands with soap.
They make used cooking oil into soap at that factory.
He blew soap bubbles.
He bought six cakes of soap yesterday.
A nurse brought me some bread and coffee, but the bread was stale and the coffee tasted of soap.

Movie subtitles

Have you got any cigarettes, cigars. - or soap, cognac-- - Yeah, yeah.
I'll get you some soap.
Yeah, that goo that tastes like soap.
Soap!
Get the soap!
Exchange them for soap!
Scrub yourself with that lye soap, 'fore I scrub you myself. I'm gonna put these britches in the boiling pot.
Here, stir this soap.
I tried putting soap on her nails.
Soap? Bah!
No soap, no.
I got the soap in my eyes!
Try this soap.
No soap, I got a lot of work to do.
Have you seen the soap?
I'm gonna get a broom, and some soap and water for this room. And I'll. Why darling, what's the matter?
I'll get you some soap. Take a bath.
But what's wrong with soap and water?
Get me the soap powder.
That goo that tastes like soap.
Scrub yourself with that lye soap, 'fore I scrub you myself.
A bit of soap now.
Get me some soap and water.
I'll get you a new bar of soap.
Ever try using soap and water?
I'm gonna make you eat dirt, you soap bubble.
If you need soap, count me in!
My ma always makes me wash my feet with soap.
Oh, razor blades and typewriter paper and toothpaste and soap and envelopes.
No soap yet, Gloves.
I called them, no soap.

News and current affairs

Essential medicines and materials are in short supply: water purification tablets, chlorine disinfectant, antibiotics, jerry cans, soap, water cisterns, and construction material for latrines.
Nanny Grusha smelt of lamp oil, soap flakes, and chimney smoke.
The first such billboard showed a young woman's face, but no bar of soap or bottle of perfume.
And Berlusconi, consumed as he is with defending his difficult position as the main protagonist in a seemingly endless soap opera of sex scandals, is not capable of reining in such blatant provocations on the part of the Lega Nord.
Then, because this is a soap opera, Song suddenly dies in a car crash, just as he is rushing to the hospital - while being chased by corruption investigators! - to check on his sweetheart and their unborn baby boy.
The first such billboard showed a young woman's face, but no bar of soap or bottle of perfume. No brand name, either.
One problem with the word bubble is that it creates a mental picture of an expanding soap bubble, which is destined to pop suddenly and irrevocably.
Many TV producers have internalized these controls so well that they are an unconscious fact of life, and audiences now entertained by endless costume dramas and soap operas are not clamoring for freer political content.

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