pea soup

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pea soup (countable and uncountable, plural pea soups)

1. (cooking) A thick soup made with dried peas and various other ingredients.
2. (countable, slang, ethnic slur) A French or French Canadian person.
3. (slang) Thick fog.
4. (color) A greyish green or dull chartreuse colour, like the colour of pea soup.

pea soup (comparative more pea soup, superlative most pea soup)

1. Alternative form of pea-soup
   1. Of the color of pea soup.

• “pea soup”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.