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scups

scups is the plural of scup.

Meaning of scup

Noun (1)

scup (plural scup or scups)

  1. A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.
    • When I was 12 years old, my father got me a boat and I went fishing off of Cape Cod. I hooked a scup and as I was reeling it in, I hooked a 4.5 foot baby thresher shark who proceeded to eat my boat.1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws, spoken by Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss)

Noun (2)

scup (plural scups)

  1. (US, dialectal) A swing.

Questions about scups

What is scups the plural of?
Scups is the plural of scup.

Words near scups in the dictionary

  1. scuppers
  2. scuppet
  3. scuppets
  4. scuppie
  5. scuppies
  6. scups
  7. scur
  8. scurf
  9. scurfier
  10. scurfiest
  11. scurfily

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