PU

alternative P.U. · alternative P. U.

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Punjab: a state of India.

plural PUs · alternative P.U. · alternative P. U.

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of processing unit.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of prosodic unit (IU for intonation unit is preferred).
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablechemistryInitialism of polyurethane.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of power unit.
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of penalty unit.
6. InternetabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of pickup (as in pickup artist).
7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebroadcastingInitialism of pickup.

alternative P.U. · alternative P. U.

1. alternativeslangAlternative form of P U; expression used when encountering a displeasing smell; exaggerated pronunciation of pew.

   IMO, this stinks. PU.

   1994 February 28, zombie, “Future Images”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jun 2022

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   THIS NEWSGROUP STINKS PU

   2000 March 19, thunde...@webtv.net, “PU WHO CUT THE FRIKIN CHEESE?”, in alt.cheese (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jun 2022

   Phew can mean you are exhausted, hot, and other things which leave you overwhelmed. Pew is a bench you sit on in church. PU means that something stinks. I feel no connection between these words. While Phew *may* mean "what a stink", PU can mean *only* "what a stink". By the way, PU has been around at least since was a young kid 60 years ago.

   2000 February 22, Karl Reinhardt, “How to spell???”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jun 2022

   PU? As in Stinks? :^) Sam (Pee Euw) Sands

   2000 October 7, Samuel Sands, “Truck”, in atl.arno (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jun 2022

1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

   She wanted to find out where the artist lived and learn from him or her. She discovered the artist lived in Pu county, Shanxi province.

   2003 January 3, Xiaoli Hu, “New Life in Old Art”, in Beijing Today, number 95, →OCLC, Face, page 9, column 3

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   He also announced: the former Pu County CCP Committee must be affirmed as a party organization. The decision to reorganize the Pu County CCP Committee was wrong. There was no one and no incidents in Pu County which were related to the conspiratorial activities of the "gang of four" to usurp party power and there was no bourgeois faction connected with the "gang of four."

   1980 December 3 [1980 November 29], “Verdict in frameup case of 'armed rebellion' in Pu County, Shanxi reversed under the direction of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission--the frameup case was pure fabrication concocted with the support of the former principal responsible person of the Shanxi provincial party committee”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 234, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing RENMIN RIBAO, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page R 6

2. A surname from Chinese.