Usually means: Young offspring of a mammal.
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  1. whelp: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whelp: Merriam-Webster
  3. whelp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whelp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whelp: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whelp: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whelp, whelp: Wordnik
  8. whelp: Wiktionary
  9. whelp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. whelp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. whelp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. whelp: Dictionary.com
  13. whelp (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Whelp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Whelp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. whelp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. whelp: Rhymezone
  18. Whelp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. whelp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. whelp: FreeDictionary.org
  21. whelp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. whelp: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. whelp: Legal dictionary

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  1. whelp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. whelp: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Whelp: MedFriendly Glossary
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  4. whelp: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whelp: A Word A Day

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

(Note: See whelped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
noun:  (derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
noun:  (obsolete) A kind of ship.
noun:  One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
noun:  A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
verb:  (ambitransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth.

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