pup
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
- A young, inexperienced person.
- Any cute dog, regardless of age.
- 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.
- 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).
- A small tributary or feeder stream in the US state of Alaska.
- 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
Verb
- To give birth to pups.
Proper noun
- Initialism of Private Use Plane: either of the two Unicode planes (planes 15 and 16) reserved for private use.
- A white dwarf star, the secondary star in the binary star system Sirius, Alpha Canis Majoris.
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