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fup

fup is the abbreviation of follow-up.

Meaning of follow-up

Noun

follow-up (plural follow-ups)

  1. A subsidiary action taken in response to an event.
    • A follow-up order placed in 2019 will feature the technology being built into new trams which are due to arrive next year.2020 January 2, Richard Clinnick, “Midlands Metro welcomes new catenary-free trams”, in Rail, page 16
  2. (Internet) A posted message on a newsgroup, etc. in reply to a previous one.
  3. A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved.
    • It could have been much worse for City before the break, but goalkeeper Joe Hart saved Jamie Mackie's long-range shot and Helguson's headed follow-up - although the latter was offside - before Bothroyd hit the post with another header.2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport
  4. The revisiting of a patient in ambulatory care.

Noun capitalized: FUP

FUP (plural FUPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of fair usage policy.

Forms of fup

pluralfups
pluralFUPs

Questions about fup

What is fup the abbreviation of?
Fup is the abbreviation of follow-up.
What part of speech is fup?
Fup is a noun.
What is the plural of fup?
The plural of fup is fups.

Words near fup in the dictionary

  1. funzies
  2. FUO
  3. Fuoco
  4. Fuocos
  5. FUOs
  6. fup
  7. fupa
  8. fupas
  9. Fuping
  10. Fupingan
  11. fupingqiuite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fup (page history and authors); FUP (page history and authors); follow-up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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