Definitions for pulp

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pulp pulp

Spelling: [puhlp]

IPA: /pʌlp/

Pulp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in pulp (lppu).

Definitions for pulp

noun

1. the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
2. the pith of the stem of a plant.
3. a soft or fleshy part of an animal body.
4. Also called dental pulp. the inner substance of the tooth, containing arteries, veins, and lymphatic and nerve tissue that communicate with their respective vascular, lymph, and nerve systems.
5. any soft, moist, slightly cohering mass, as that into which linen, wood, etc., are converted in the making of paper.
6. a magazine or book printed on rough, low-quality paper made of wood pulp or rags, and usually containing sensational and lurid stories, articles, etc. Compare slick1 (def 9).
7. Mining. ore pulverized and mixed with water. dry crushed ore.

verb (used with object)

1. to reduce to pulp.
2. to reduce (printed papers, books, etc.) to pulp for use in making new paper.
3. to remove the pulp from.

verb (used without object)

1. to become reduced to pulp.

Origin of pulp

1555-65; earlier pulpe Latin pulpa flesh, pulp of fruit

Examples for pulp

And that time, his face was pummeled to a pulp by the Governor.

When cold, mix the pulp of the apple with sugar and lemon peel shred fine, taking as little as possible of the apple juice.

The deck of the smack below promised to mash the American into a pulp.

We could never make it—before we got to the top we'd be cooked to a pulp.

The scene between getaway cab driver Esmeralda Villalobos (Angela Jones) and Butch is one of the oddest in pulp Fiction.

After watching that scene, you could hardly call the use of heroin in pulp Fiction romanticized or glamorous.

His voice would morph from a melodic baritone to a deep, guttural snarl, grinding notes to a pulp.

To-night he said 'I guess I've got you beaten to a pulp,' when I fancy he wasn't guessing at all.

Heat the pulp with three parts of the soup, mix six yolks of eggs with the remainder of it, and thicken it over the fire.

It's pulp fiction—smart pulp fiction, but pulp fiction all the same.