Meaning

2 senses
  1. A device or implement used as a strainer for soup.

    2007, G. Gopal, Delicious Dishes (Vegetarian), Sura Books, page 77, When cool, pass the cooked mixture through a soup strainer.

  2. (humorous)A moustache, particularly a handlebar moustache, that droops.

    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.

Forms

plural: soup strainers

See also

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