soap
soap (sōp) noun
1. A cleansing agent, manufactured in bars, granules, flakes, or liquid form, made from a mixture of the sodium salts of various fatty acids of natural oils and fats.
2. A metallic salt of a fatty acid, as of aluminum or iron.
3. Slang. Money, especially that which is used for bribery.
4. Slang. A soap opera.
verb, transitive
soaped, soaping, soaps
1. To treat or cover with or as if with soap.
2. a. Informal. To soft-soap; cajole. b. Slang. To bribe.
idiom.
no soap Slang
1. Not possible or permissible.
2. Unsuccessful; futile.
[Middle English sope, from Old English sāpe.]