pup
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
broadcasting
business
film
horticulture
journalism
lifestyle
media
newspapers
publishing
sex
sexuality
television
Etymology: Clipping of puppy.
Inflected forms:
form: pups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pupping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pupped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pupped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
pos: noun
examples: The dog has had that bed since he was just a pup.
gloss: A young, inexperienced person.
pos: noun
examples: The new teacher is a mere pup.
gloss: Any cute dog, regardless of age.
pos: noun
examples: My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!
gloss: A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
pos: noun
gloss: A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of small spotlight.
pos: noun
examples: 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 […]
Spots were also used for the foreground, usually the smaller type like a “pup,” which could be repositioned quickly for different setups.
gloss: An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Someone who participates in pup play (the sexual practice of role-playing as a young dog).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
Mentorship, I learned from the Fog City pups, plays a huge role in their family business, where the pack hierarchy comes into play.
(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.)
gloss: A small tributary or feeder stream in the US state of Alaska.
pos: noun
examples: [...] stream gravels of Bear Pup are auriferous for a distance of at least 2 miles above its mouth.
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.
[…] 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.
[…] 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. […]
gloss: To give birth to pups.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: bullpup
bull-pup
buy a pup
cute as a speckled pup
in pup
mucky pup
pangopup
Pluto pup
pretty as a speckled pup
pup cup
pupfish
pup hood
puphood
puplet
pupling
pupper
pupperino
pupperware
pup play
puppuccino
puppy
puppy dog
since Hector was a pup
since Skippy was a pup
werepup
wolf pup
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