Definitions for scups

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Spelling: [skuhp]
IPA: /skʌp/

Scups is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in scups (cpssu).

Definitions for scups

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 scups

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

Examples for scups

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.

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.

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

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

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

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."

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

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

Word Value for scups
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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