English Explanatory Dictionary

pup

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
  2. A young, inexperienced person.
  3. Any cute dog, regardless of age.
  4. A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
  5. A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
  6. A kind of small spotlight.
  7. An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
  8. Someone who participates in pup play (the sexual practice of role-playing as a young dog).
  9. A small tributary or feeder stream in the US state of Alaska.
verb
  1. To give birth to pups.
noun
  1. Acronym of potentially unwanted program, software that most computer users do not want on their computers, such as adware.
  2. Paid up
  3. Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein
name
  1. Initialism of Private Use Plane: either of the two Unicode planes (planes 15 and 16) reserved for private use.
name
  1. A white dwarf star, the secondary star in the binary star system Sirius, Alpha Canis Majoris.

Pronunciation

/pʌp/ en-us-pup.ogg

Word forms

pup pups pupping pupped

Etymology

Clipping of puppy.

Synonyms

SPUA Alpha Canis Majoris B Sirius B α Canis Majoris B α CMa B

Related words

puppy pup tent sell someone a pup

Derived words

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