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scuppers

scuppers is the plural of scupper.

scuppers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scupper.

Meaning of scupper

Noun

scupper (plural scuppers)

  1. A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.
  2. A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
    • I have said that our roof was decidedly Biblical in style; but to make it a dry one, something of a nautical character was added to its architecture, for on either side were scuppers, and it was slightly arched in the centre[.]1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 111

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Questions about scuppers

What is scuppers the plural of?
Scuppers is the plural of scupper.

Words near scuppers in the dictionary

  1. scupper plugs
  2. scuppered
  3. scuppering
  4. scuppernong
  5. scuppernongs
  6. scuppers
  7. scuppet
  8. scuppets
  9. scuppie
  10. scuppies
  11. scups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scuppers (page history and authors); scupper (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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