sops
/sɑps/
noun
- Something given to appease, pacify, or bribe someone, often as a token gesture.
- The government's funding for the arts was seen as a sop to critics.
- The company offered a small pay raise as a sop to angry workers.
- He gave his daughter a toy as a sop to stop her crying.
- A piece of bread or other food soaked in liquid, such as milk or broth.
- The old recipe called for sops of toast in warm milk.
- He ate sops of biscuit soaked in tea for breakfast.
- She dipped a sop of bread into the soup.
Synonyms
verb
- To soak up or absorb liquid, especially with food or a cloth.
- He used a piece of bread to sop up the gravy on his plate.
- The towel sopped up most of the water from the floor.
- She sopped the spilled milk with a sponge.
- To give a bribe or concession to appease someone.
- The politician sopped the voters with promises of new roads.
- The manager sopped the team with extra vacation days.
- They sopped the angry customer with a free gift card.