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luppers

luppers is the plural of lupper.

Meaning of lupper

Noun (1)

lupper (plural luppers)

  1. (Polari, plural-normally) A finger.
    • Order lau your luppers on the strillers bona.1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Guest House (Round the Horne), season 3, spoken by Julian (Hugh Paddick)
    Synonyms:
    finger

Noun (2)

lupper (countable and uncountable, plural luppers)

  1. (humorous, slang) A meal or snack eaten between the normal times for lunch and supper.
    • Working a 12:30 pm. to 9:00 pm. work shift raises the question: How can you tell the difference between the meals “linner” and “lupper?” Well, “linner” is closer to the normal lunch hour, and “lupper” is closer to supper.2004, Rolland E. Stroup, Distilled Lincoln Anecdotes
    Synonyms:
    linner, dunch

Questions about luppers

What is luppers the plural of?
Luppers is the plural of lupper.

Words near luppers in the dictionary

  1. lupophones
  2. Lupos
  3. lupous
  4. luppa
  5. lupper
  6. luppers
  7. luppie
  8. luppies
  9. Luppino
  10. Luppinos
  11. Luppitt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: luppers (page history and authors); lupper (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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