Usually means: Young dog, especially newborn canine.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word pup:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pup: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pup: Merriam-Webster
  3. pup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pup: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pup: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pup: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pup, pup, pup: Wordnik
  8. pup: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. PUP, pup: Wiktionary
  10. pup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pup: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pup: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. PUP, Pup: Dictionary.com
  14. pup: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pup: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PUP (album), PUP (band), PUP, Pup (album), Pup (band), Pup: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pup/, Pup: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pup: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pup: Rhymezone
  20. Pup/, Pup, pup (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pup: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. PUP, Pup: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. pup: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pup: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. pup: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. pup: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pup: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PUP: Acronym Finder
  2. PUP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. pup: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pup: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pup, pup: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. p.u.p, pup: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See puping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
noun:  A young, inexperienced person.
noun:  Any cute dog, regardless of age.
noun:  A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
noun:  (horticulture) A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
noun:  (film, television) A kind of small spotlight.
noun:  (chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
noun:  (sex, slang) Someone who participates in pup play (the sexual practice of role-playing as a young dog).
noun:  (chiefly Alaska) A small tributary or feeder stream in the US state of Alaska.
verb:  (intransitive) To give birth to pups.
noun:  (insurance) Paid up
noun:  (biochemistry) Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein
noun:  (astronomy, informal) A white dwarf star, the secondary star in the binary star system Sirius, Alpha Canis Majoris.
noun:  (computing) Acronym of potentially unwanted program: software that most computer users do not want on their computers, such as adware.
noun:  (computing) Initialism of Private Use Plane: either of the two Unicode planes (planes 15 and 16) reserved for private use.

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