soup strainer

Definitions

1. 1

   A device or implement used as a strainer for soup.

   • Remove and pass through a fine mesh soup strainer into a separate handi/pan.
   • 2007, G. Gopal, Delicious Dishes (Vegetarian), Sura Books, page 77, When cool, pass the cooked mixture through a soup strainer.
2. 2

   A moustache, particularly a handlebar moustache, that droops.

   • Though tawny-skinned, he easily passed himself off as white, growing a thick soup-strainer of a mustache to complete the disguise of his pale gray eyes.
   • 2004, Ronald E. Yates, Finding Billy Battles, California Times Publishing, unnumbered page, Charley stroked his goatee and moustache. "I don't know. I got this here soup strainer and chin whiskers now, and I didn't in Tombstone. […] "
   • 2013, Jon Sharpe, The Trailsman, No. 376: New Mexico Madman, Penguin (New American Library, Signet), page 21, He was a thickset man with a huge soup-strainer mustache and a pockmarked face.

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