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. A greyish green or dull chartreuse colour, like the colour of pea soup.

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

Of the color of pea soup (greyish green or dull chartreuse).

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