Definitions for tups

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Spelling: [tuhp]

IPA: /tʌp/

Tups is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in tups (pstu).

Definitions for tups

noun

1. Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
2. the head of a falling hammerlike mechanism, as of a steam hammer or pile driver.

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly British. (of a ram) to copulate with (a ewe).

verb (used without object)

1. Chiefly British. (of a ewe) to copulate.

Origin of tups

1300-50; Middle English tope, tupe ram, of obscure origin

Examples for tups

Tuving, strip in the boat nearest the gunwale; from tuk-, to stop a motion; tup, he makes it fast.

The shearling tup is then a 2-shear tup, and the dinmont is a wether, but more correctly a 2-shear wether.

Mattie has been twice at the door wi' the dinner, and weel for you it was a tup's head, for that canna suffer by delay.

As if I mattered a tup's head, the silly gomeril, bless him!

Start the tup in his own rough region, and we will be bound to say he will give the hounds and their followers a scramble.

Neither Davy nor tup will know that Im slipping in half a minute of doze.

Little Mildred was very sad that she was not allowed to take him his “tup of toffee.”