soap
soaps; soaped; soaping
Soap gets bubbly and helps cut through dirt and oil. People use soap for cleaning things like clothes, dishes, hands, and bodies. Don’t bother washing your mouth out with soap, though. It doesn’t get rid of bad words.
If you ask a chemist about soap, she'll call it a surfactant, a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid, making it spreadable. Think of what happens when you lather up a bar of soap under running water and wash your hands with the lather. Soap is made out of natural fats or oils mixed with lye. The Old English root, sape, originally referred to the red hair dye Germanic warriors used to appear scarier.
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a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
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bar soap
soap in the form of a bar
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castile soap
a good hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
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liquid soap
soap in liquid form
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leather soap, saddle soap
a mild soap for cleansing and conditioning leather
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soap flakes
soap that has been cut into flakes to make suds faster
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built-soap powder, soap powder, washing powder
soap in powdered form mixed with alkaline builders
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green soap, soft soap
a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases
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bath soap, face soap, toilet soap
soap used as a toiletry
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cleaner, cleanser, cleansing agent
a preparation used in cleaning something
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street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
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synonyms:
Georgia home boy, easy lay, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, scoop
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GHB, gamma hydroxybutyrate
a club drug available in liquid or powder form is taken orally (frequently combined with alcohol); used to incapacitate individuals for the commission of sexual assault and rape
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GHB, gamma hydroxybutyrate
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money offered as a bribe
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rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning
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