mock turtle soup

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   soup made from a calf's head or other meat in imitation of green turtle soup

   Broadersoup

Questions about mock turtle soup

What does mock turtle soup mean?

mock turtle soup means "soup made from a calf's head or other meat in imitation of green turtle soup".

Is mock turtle soup a common word?

mock turtle soup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.