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pup¹
- /pʌp/
Rhymes with -ʌp
Where it comes from
Clipping of puppy.
noun pups
- A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals. The dog has had that bed since he was just a pup.
- A young, inexperienced person. The new teacher is a mere pup.
- Any cute dog, regardless of age. My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!
- A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
- A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
- A kind of small spotlight. For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]
- An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
- Someone who participates in pup play (the sexual practice of role-playing as a young dog). It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy.
- A small tributary or feeder stream in the US state of Alaska. [...] stream gravels of Bear Pup are auriferous for a distance of at least 2 miles above its mouth.
verb pups · pupping · pupped
- To give birth to pups.
PUP²
noun PUPs
- Acronym of potentially unwanted program, software that most computer users do not want on their computers, such as adware.
- Paid up
- Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein
proper noun PUPs
- Initialism of Private Use Plane: either of the two Unicode planes (planes 15 and 16) reserved for private use.
- Initialism of Progressive Unionist Party
- Initialism of Protestant Unionist Party
Similar: SPUA
Pup³
Where it comes from
Capitalization of pup. From pups being small dogs. From being a small star next to the Dog Star.
proper noun
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A white dwarf star, the secondary star in the binary star system Sirius, Alpha Canis Majoris.
Similar: Alpha Canis Majoris B, Sirius B, α Canis Majoris B, α CMa B
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: whelp, puppy, dingo, pooch, lapdog, doggy, doggie, kid, pet, smallholder, neonatal, fluffy, newborn, runt, baby, boy
proper noun
Similar: SPUA
Translations
Talk about this word "pup." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pup. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pup. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pup "pup." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pup.Cite this
@misc{pup_2026,
title = {pup},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pup},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
