pup

plural pups

1. 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.

2. A young, inexperienced person.

   The new teacher is a mere pup.

3. Any cute dog, regardless of age.

   My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!

4. A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
5. agricultureA new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
6. broadcastingA kind of small spotlight.

   Spots were also used for the foreground, usually the smaller type like a “pup,” which could be repositioned quickly for different setups.

   2003, Christopher Neame, Rungs on a Ladder: Hammer Films Seen Through a Soft Gauze, page 23

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   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 […]

   1976, A. Arthur Englander, Paul Petzold, Filming for Television, page 191

7. USjournalismAn early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
8. slanglifestyleSomeone who participates in pup play (the sexual practice of role-playing as a young dog).

   Mentorship, I learned from the Fog City pups, plays a huge role in their family business, where the pack hierarchy comes into play.

   2019 February 5, Mike Miksche, “Teaching Young Dogs Old Tricks”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024

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   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.

   2017 April 23, “Success Failure”, in Silicon Valley, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos)

   (Pups are apparently different from "furries," who dress up in animal suits. And they are both different from "bunnies," which the author didn't explain and which I have neither heart nor stomach to Google.)

   2019 April 29, Christie Blatchford, “Christie Blatchford: What ’puppy play’ enthusiasts do behind closed doors shouldn’t be for our reading pleasure”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network Canada Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2024

9. chiefly AlaskaA 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.

   1913, Alfred Hulse Brooks, Mineral Resources of Alaska, page 289

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   At last we reached the head of Young creek, and following a "pup" stream we worked out way over a third divide and down into the great Chitina valley.

   1917, Hunter-trader-trapper, volume 34, page 15

   […] the Iditarod district . None appear in the Dictionary of Alaska Place Names (27) and presumably are local pups or streams whose terminology is not currently used.

   1987, Andreas H. Vassiliou, Donald M. Hausen, David J. T. Carson, Process Mineralogy VII: Applications to Mineral ..., page 225

   […] covered, not by the main stream many meters to the east, but by silt moving downslope from the west. […] It is common [to find] bones at the juncture of such side feeder systems, or "pups," as they are called locally. I have found that extant wild sheep (Ovis dalli) bones occur in similar pup streams in areas that today serve as winter ranges for sheep. […]

   2013, R. Dale Guthrie, Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe

present singular third person pups · participle present pupping · participle past pupped · past pupped

1. intransitiveTo give birth to pups.

plural PUPs

1. abbreviationacronymcomputingAcronym of potentially unwanted program, software that most computer users do not want on their computers, such as adware.
2. businessPaid up
3. biochemistryProkaryotic ubiquitin-like protein

plural PUPs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableUnicodeInitialism of Private Use Plane: either of the two Unicode planes (planes 15 and 16) reserved for private use.
2. UKabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of Progressive Unionist Party.
3. UKabbreviationcountablehistoricalinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of Protestant Unionist Party.

1. informalastronomyA white dwarf star, the secondary star in the binary star system Sirius, Alpha Canis Majoris.

   Synonyms: Alpha Canis Majoris B, Sirius B, α Canis Majoris B, α CMa B