pup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: pups
Etymology: Clipping of puppy.
Senses: examples: text: The dog has had that bed since he was just a pup.
glosses: A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
examples: text: The new teacher is a mere pup.
glosses: A young, inexperienced person.
examples: text: My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!
glosses: Any cute dog, regardless of age.
glosses: A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 1976, A. Arthur Englander, Paul Petzold, Filming for Television, page 191:
text: Spots were also used for the foreground, usually the smaller type like a “pup,” which could be repositioned quickly for different setups.
ref: 2003, Christopher Neame, Rungs on a Ladder: Hammer Films Seen Through a Soft Gauze, page 23:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A kind of small spotlight.
topics: journalism
media
newspapers
publishing
coordinate_terms: bulldog edition
glosses: An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2017 April 23, “Success Failure”, in Silicon Valley, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos):
text: Mentorship, I learned from the Fog City pups, plays a huge role in their family business, where the pack hierarchy comes into play.
ref: 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:
text: (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.)
ref: 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:
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: Someone who participates in pup play (the sexual practice of role-playing as a young dog).
examples: text: [...] stream gravels of Bear Pup are auriferous for a distance of at least 2 miles above its mouth.
ref: 1913, Alfred Hulse Brooks, Mineral Resources of Alaska, page 289:
text: 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.
ref: 1917, Hunter-trader-trapper, volume 34, page 15:
text: […] 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.
ref: 1987, Andreas H. Vassiliou, Donald M. Hausen, David J. T. Carson, Process Mineralogy VII: Applications to Mineral ..., page 225:
text: […] 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. […]
ref: 2013, R. Dale Guthrie, Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe:
qualifier: chiefly Alaska
glosses: A small tributary or feeder stream in the US state of Alaska.
Derived terms: bull-pup
buy a pup
cute as a speckled pup
in pup
mucky pup
Pluto pup
pretty as a speckled pup
pup hood
pupper
pupperino
pup play
puppy
puppy dog
since Hector was a pup
since Skippy was a pup
wolf pup