- (also puppy)a young dog
- (also puppy)(old-fashioned, informal) a proud or rude young man
- a young animal of various species (= types)
- a seal pup
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘arrogant young man’): back-formation from puppy, interpreted as a diminutive.
Idioms
See pup in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarysell somebody/buy a pup
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) to sell somebody something/to buy something that has no value or is worth much less than the price paid
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