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pup tents

pup tents is the plural of pup tent.

Meaning of pup tent

Noun

pup tent (plural pup tents)

  1. A shelter tent.
  2. (US, historical) A shelter half, one of two halves comprising a shelter tent or dog tent.
    • Colonel Elbridge Colby in Army Talk tells us that the shelter-half, or “pup tent” made its debut during the Civil War. It seems to have been first christened “pup tent” by the Sixth Iowa Infantry at Memphis in 1862 and appears to stem etymologically from the same soldierly self-ridicule that...1947 July, J.F.L., “Tenting Tonight”, in Infantry Journal, page 37

Questions about pup tents

What is pup tents the plural of?
Pup tents is the plural of pup tent.

Words near pup tents in the dictionary

  1. pup cups
  2. pup hood
  3. pup hoods
  4. pup play
  5. pup tent
  6. pup tents
  7. pupa
  8. pupacidal
  9. pupacide
  10. pupacides
  11. pupadom

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