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

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  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. whelp: Legal dictionary

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  1. whelp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Whelp: MedFriendly Glossary
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  3. 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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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A young offspring of a 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:  (transitive, intransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth.

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