0 a type of soup that contains small pieces of pasta (= a food made from flour and water) in the shape of letters:
1 a confused mixture that is difficult to understand, often because it contains a lot of abbreviations (= short forms of words) and acronyms (= abbreviations formed from the first letters of each word in the name of something):
a menu featuring such classics as veal Oscar and alphabet soup with chicken dumplings
My son had been begging for alphabet soup. So I picked up some alphabet pasta and whipped up some soup.
So what makes this Mexican Alphabet Soup Mexican? Well, it's all in the way you prepare the pasta.
They are probably better equipped than most parents to make sense of the alphabet soup of ESAs, UGMAs, IRAs, and so on that make up the nation's college savings system.
In the alphabet soup of seismology, nondestructive P (primary) waves travel twice as fast as the dangerous S (shear) and R (raleigh) waves - just as lightning precedes thunder.
There's already the ITED, ITSB, NAEP, PSAT, SAT, and ACT, and the alphabet soup of standardized tests Montana children take each year is likely to get thicker.
She's heard a patient complain of drowning in "an alphabet soup of medications".
