Noun : The political boss gave him some cash as a sop.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to sop bread in gravy. ,He used bread to sop up the gravy.    From Dictionary.com. 

And sadly, sops like my parents will buy that bs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Health insurance CEOs conspire to blame Democrats for increasing premiums.] Reference

In came Robin Redbreast, and brought her sops and wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Kitty's Stories] Reference

It's not so far from sops in wine or milk, to sops in fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [July recipe: Summer pudding] Reference

But sorry later, there being nought else but sops and wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference

On the table stood a small basin of milk and sops of bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fletcher of Madeley] Reference

He sops up the confit with bread and pops it into his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tomatoes' Sweet Comeback] Reference

Why have I lowered myself, accepting the sops of the public?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference

And so he brought him, and he made sops therein and ate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

Are these revelations, or sops, ploys, detours leading nowhere?.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Block: Mad Men and the High Cost of Advertising] Reference

"During past decades we were lead by sops with no vision," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Sir Hildebrand; begin the blessed morning with brandy sops, like Squire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

Afflicted with grief for the loss of her sops, she solicits you with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

And there's a bonus -- the sturdy rice and beans dish sops up a hangover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Green Grass Roots And A Beacon of Hope From Signal Mountain] Reference

He sops and sneezes, runs at the eyes and nose, half manful, half miserable.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference

Health authorities and councils love offering us financial sops to improve ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is bribery really the best way to wean people off chips?] Reference

I went around on Tuesday singing the melody line of songs in the same range as the sops.    From Wordnik.com.  [j-gan Diary Entry] Reference

We saw in the market melons, guavas, sour-sops, alligator-pears, love-apples and mangoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

It seems you and I are of similar minds while Carl and Ronnie are a pair of liberal sops.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

They vacillate when offered sops by the state, or may even squeal when coerced by the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

It's hard to see what Congress is adding, other than more bureaucracy and sops to trial lawyers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Much, Too Late] Reference

(EE-suhps, EE-sops) A group of stories thought to have been written by Aesop, a Greek storyteller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesop's fables] Reference

'I like playing with fire,' Sabin said flippantly, pushing his bowl aside, the sops half-finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

Interim budget may offer tax sops The forthcoming interim budget could hold some pleasant surprises.    From Wordnik.com.  [India News Digest: Interim Budget May Offer Tax Sops] Reference

Some of these would be honorable, some sops to entrenched interests to get their congresspersons on board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Slayton: Deficit Reduction...Seriously] Reference

In such places young men are never anything but milk sops, and old men anything but b-b-bald-headed infants!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference

But now that she has repudiated the sops offered to her honor and conscience, her position is clear and fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference

They are children in the gormandizing way; loving sugar, sops, tarts, trifles, apricot-creams, and such gewgaws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fitz-Boodle Papers] Reference

Washington, it must be said, has balked at certain textile categories and sugar -- sops to powerful U.S. lobbies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Trade Is Not Enough] Reference

He believed the Bancrofts understood they were sops and he never expected the family to take his promises seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Alderman: Citizen Murdoch: What "War at the Wall Street Journal?"] Reference

There will be sops to the left, but having experienced Blair 1997 or Clinton 1992 it feels like we've been here before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

The state government has promised the Tatas various tax sops and ready land alongwith connectivity to the national highway.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's advantage Modi; Tata drives Nano into Gujarat] Reference

The researcher says that NMO-IgG binds to a protein that normally sops up excess glutamate from the space between brain cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study Links MSG Main Ingredient to Neurological Disease] Reference

When the light started to fade, Jarmin appeared again with a lantern and bread and sops, a chamberpot, and a big jug of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take A Thief]

The day, as she had prognosticated, turned out fine; for weather-wisdom was imbibed with their milk-sops by the children of the Exe Vale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid] Reference

The placement of the high-rise hotels, the reduced amusement zone -- the current plan's greatest deficiencies are transparent sops to Thor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Treiman: How Mayor Bloomberg Is Killing Coney Island] Reference