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alphabet soup
Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of soup that contains noodles in the shape of various alphabetical letters 2 (context figuratively English) An overabundance of acronyms and abbreviations
WordNet
n. a confusing assortment; "Roosevelt created an alphabet soup of federal agencies"
soup that contains small noodles in the shape of letters of the alphabet
Wikipedia
Alphabet soup is a metaphor for an abundance of abbreviations or acronyms, named for a common dish made from alphabet pasta. Use dates at least as far back as Franklin D. Roosevelt's alphabet agencies of the New Deal. In the United States, the Federal Government is described as an alphabet soup on account of the multitude of agencies that it has spawned, including the NSA, CIA, FBI, USSS, ATF, DEA, NCIS and INS. In 1938, a US barbershop harmony organization was founded, aptly named SPEBSQSA or The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. as a humorous lampoon to these numerous "alphabet soup" agencies.
Alphabet Soup (foaled March 31, 1991, in Pennsylvania) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for setting a track record for 1ΒΌ miles at Woodbine Racetrack when he won the 1996 Breeders' Cup Classic, defeating both the great Cigar and Preakness Stakes winner Louis Quatorze.
Alphabet Soup was bred by Southeast Associates, a group led by Roy S. Lerman, and purchased by Californian Georgia B. Ridder. He is a descendant of Nearco, and his damsire is U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Arts and Letters. Purchased privately as a two-year-old by Georgia B. Ridder, Alphabet Soup was late in developing. Mrs. Ridder raced the colt in California, where he began to come into his own at the age of four, winning the 1995 Native Diver and Del Mar Breeders' Cup Handicaps. In 1996, en route to his triumph in that year's Breeders' Cup Classic, he won three important graded stakes races: the San Antonio Handicap, the Pat O'Brien Handicap, and the San Pasqual Handicap, in which he defeated Best Pal. He also crossed the wire first in the Goodwood Breeders' Cup Handicap but was disqualified and set back to third.
Alphabet Soup raced in 1997 at age six, his best effort coming in defense of the San Antonio Handicap when he finished second to Gentlemen.
Retired to stud duty, he stands at Adena Springs in Midway, Kentucky. Among his progeny is Our New Recruit, winner of the 2004 Dubai Golden Shaheen. He currently resides at Old Friends.
Alphabet Soup is a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television between October 5, 1971 and December 4, 1973. Each week, Trudy Young, Marc Stone, Lynn Griffin and puppet Arbuckle the Alligator would invite a guest who would talk about a subject beginning with a letter of the week.
Occasional guest Mavis Kerr (a science educator/entertainer at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto) joined the team when Lynn Griffin became ill.
Alphabet soup may refer to:
- A common dish made from alphabet pasta
- Alphabet soup (linguistics), a metaphor for an abundance of abbreviations or acronyms
- Alphabet Soup (horse) (born 1991), racehorse
- Alphabet Soup (TV series), the television series
- Alphabet Soup Children's Entertainment, a Canadian children's band
- "Alphabet Soup", a song by Bell X1 from Music in Mouth
- Alphabet Soup! (Barney & Friends), an episode of Barney & Friends
Usage examples of "alphabet soup".
In her years working for various departments of the floating alphabet soup that was Uncle's way of sliding under Congress's radar, she had taken apart some dudes who thought they were the toughest men ever to swing their balls when they walked.
If any of this were true-and the primordial alphabet soup really is random-don't you think it's highly unlikely that we could structure the whole thing?
The dust theory implied a countless number of alternative worlds: billions of different possible histories spelled out from the same primordial alphabet soup.
There were cryptic symbols all over it like Chinese alphabet soup.
The GD engineers had also thrown in an alphabet soup of new dogfighting technologies.