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Collocations for soup - noun

ADJECTIVE

creamy, hearty, thick
hearty vegetable soup
clear, thin
cold, hot
home-made
canned (esp. AmE), tinned (BrE)
dried, packaged (AmE), packet (BrE)
chicken, chicken noodle, miso, pea, tomato, vegetable, etc.
a pea-soup fog (= a very thick fog)
alphabet (often figurative)
an alphabet soup of other government agencies (= used to say that their names consist of complicated abbreviations)
bird's nest, shark fin, shark's fin (esp. BrE)
the Chinese delicacy of shark fin soup
primordial (figurative)
the emergence of life from the primordial soup on the Earth

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… OF SOUP

bowl, cup, mug (BrE)
can, tin (BrE)
pot

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VERB + soup

cook, make, prepare
heat, heat up
drink, eat (Eat is the normal verb when the soup is served in a bowl.)
slurp
Don't slurp your soup!
ladle, ladle out, pour, serve
He ladled out three bowls of soup.

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soup + NOUN

bowl, plate, pot (AmE), tureen
spoon
can
Warhol's paintings of Campbell's soup cans
kitchen (= a place where soup and other food is supplied free to people with no money)

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