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has gloss	(noun) soup that contains small noodles in the shape of letters of the alphabet alphabet soup
has gloss	eng: Alphabet soup is a metaphor for an abundance of abbreviations or acronyms, named for a common dish made from alphabet pasta. Use dates at least as far back as Franklin D. Roosevelt's alphabet agencies of the New Deal. In the United States, the Federal Government is described as an alphabet soup on account of the multitude of agencies that it has spawned, including the NSA, CIA, FBI, USSS, BATF, DEA, NCIS and INS. This phrase is especially used to described the alphabet agencies of the New Deal during the Great Depression. In 1938, a US barbershop harmony organization was founded, aptly named SPEBSQSA or The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. as a humorous lampoon to these numerous "alphabet soup" agencies.
lexicalization	eng: alphabet soup
subclass of	(noun) liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food soup

Meaning
German
lexicalization	deu: Buchstabensuppe
Castilian
has gloss	spa: La sopa de letras es una especie de sopa elaborada a base de concentrados y que contiene una especie de fideos en forma de diversas letras del alfabeto. Se considera que es una sopa orientada de forma tradicional a la alimentación de los niños, para que de esta forma puedan ser motivados a la lectura o al juego educativo mientras comen las sopa. Es un plato internacional que puede encontrarse en muchos países.
lexicalization	spa: Sopa de letras
lexicalization	spa: sopa de letras

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