Alphabet soup

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA 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."

2.NounA cryptic overabundance of acronyms and abbreviations.

"The various engineering teams' correspondence on circuit board design was an alphabet soup to outsiders."

3.NounA quantity of people or organizations that are referred to by acronyms.

"too many three-letter agencies, constituting an alphabet soup"

4.NounA physical state in which there is a miscellany of different particles, often designated by letters.

5.NounThe series of preliminary races (denoted by letters) through which drivers must advance to the main event.

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