Tup
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A male sheep, a ram.
"... to tie up rams, which could not be supposed to much used to handling ... having often heard for a proverb, as mad as a tup in an halter"
- 2 Two pence. uncountable
- 3 Abbreviation of transfer under pressure. abbreviation, alt-of
- 4 uncastrated adult male sheep wordnet
- 5 The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer.
"Those familiar with drop forging are accustomed to sizing drop hammers as 1 ton or 5 ton or whatever. This measure of the size is simply the weight of the tup. The total weight of the helve of No 2 is about 6.4 tons."
- 1 To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe.
"Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe."
- 2 To have sex with, to bonk, etc. slang
"I love her well enough to tup her, I suppose. A dangerous bit of business, that. She is as fertile as a bloody alluvial plain."
- 3 To butt. English, regional, slang
Example
More examples"... to tie up rams, which could not be supposed to much used to handling ... having often heard for a proverb, as mad as a tup in an halter"
Etymology
From Middle English tupe (compare Scots tuip), origin unknown.
Clipping of tuppence (“two pence”).