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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soapsuds
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She will lie in the soapsuds, humming to herself, till two in the morning.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soapsuds

Soapsuds \Soap"suds`\, n. pl. Suds made with soap.

Wiktionary
soapsuds

n. lather, suds, foam produced by soap in water.

WordNet
soapsuds

n. the froth produced by soaps or detergents [syn: suds, lather]

Usage examples of "soapsuds".

A pair of bluejeans floated to the surface and he stomped them back down, sending a creamy squirt of soapsuds onto the lawn.

And so I put to him some other foolish jokes about soapsuds, henpecking, and flat-irons, which set the man into a fury, and succeeded in raising a quarrel between us.

The men used rubber bands, and the women used tumblers of luckwarm water and soapsuds.

He stropped the blade on a piece of leather and mixed a bowl of soapsuds.

When, after one of these Saturdays spent in housecleaning, baking, washing and ironing, after milking and feeding the cow, my grandmother immersed herself from top to toe in the tub, when after leaving a little of herself in the soapsuds and letting the water in the tub sink back to its normal level, she sat down on the edge of the bed swathed in a great flowery towel, the four worn skirts and the freshly washed skirt lay spread out before her on the floor.