Definitions for scup

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Spelling: [skuhp]
IPA: /skʌp/

Scup is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in scup (cpsu).

Definitions for scup

noun

  1. a sparid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, found along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., having a compressed body and high back.

Origin of scup

1840-50, Americanism; short for earlier and dial. scuppaug, skippaug, skapaug Narragansett (E spelling) mishcuppaûog, plural (singular mishcùp)

Examples for scup

I had seen plenty of city people at scup Haven, and my few dresses, I fancied, would pass muster anywhere.

What'll you give me if I'll make you a scup one of these days?

One of them had declared that he had the "highest old swing," in that "scup," ever taken by mortal, and a good many believed him.

The street boys of our day and early home were wont to term the hetairai of the public walks "scup."

Well now, come, I'll make a bargain with you; I'll engage to fix up a scup for you if you'll give me a kiss.

Eastward he swims as "scup," while at the Manhattan end of the Sound he is fried as "porgie."

The soles when they came proved to be nice little pan-fish, not unlike what in New England are called "scup."

Blackfish (tautog) and scup, or scuppaug, are much esteemed.

I'll show you the scup in a few minutes, as soon as I finish this job I'm about.

They are surface feeders, and swim in large schools in quest of menhaden, scup, and other small fishes.

Word Value for scup
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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