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Tup

//tʌp// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    Two pence. uncountable
  3. 3
    Abbreviation of transfer under pressure. abbreviation, alt-of
  4. 4
    uncastrated adult male sheep wordnet
  5. 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."

Verb
  1. 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. 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. 3
    To butt. English, regional, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tupe (compare Scots tuip), origin unknown.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tupe (compare Scots tuip), origin unknown.

Etymology 3

Clipping of tuppence (“two pence”).

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