From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsoup kitchenˈsoup ˌkitchen noun [countable] SSPEa place where people with no money and no homes can get free food
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soup kitchen• It's like a queue for a soup kitchen.• Or, George Bush visiting a soup kitchen and maybe Jeane Kirkpatrick at a boxing match.• The evening programme is aimed at teenagers and features a live band and soup kitchen.• On every street corner a newspaper billboard proclaimed it, in every soup kitchen queue people discussed it.• We could not have created this soup kitchen without busting the unions. 