sup

Verb (1)

sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)

1. To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
   • There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple
   • We stood upon the forehead of the hills, / And lifted up our hearts in prayer; / And as we halted, reverent, / Meseemed that Nature o’er us bent, / That she did bid us sup / From bread she gave and from her cup.1893, Norman Gale, “A Walk”, in Orchard Songs, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews & John Lane; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 43

Noun (1)

sup (countable and uncountable, plural sups)

1. A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.
   • Not a sup will I swallow, nor a bit will I bite, till Burd Ellen is set free.1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Childe Rowland”, in English Fairy Tales, page 123
   • Is it stoppin' there you'd be till every sup of the say's dhrained out on us to beyant the King Pharaoh's Islands?1896, Jane Barlow, Mrs. Martin's Company, page 95

Verb (2)

sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)

1. To eat supper.
   • ...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
   • I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC

Interjection

1. (slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)
   • — Sup?
     — Not much.

   Synonyms:

   t'sup, wassup, w'sup, wudup

Adjective

sup (not comparable)

1. Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.

   Antonyms:

   sdown

Noun (2)

sup (plural sups)

1. (informal) Superintendent.
   • They had put in the stretch-out and they were laying people off and there was talk of a union. "Let's have a union." "Mr. Shaw won't stand for it. The sup won't stand for it."1932, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 91, page 64
   • Cpl. Perez, the radio sup said, "Everything checks out OK, Sarge. We're up and working."2011, M. Thomas, Not Today, →ISBN, page 212

Noun (3)

sup (plural sups)

1. Supremum, upper limit.
   • Values for the sup W statistic in excess of the 5 percent critical value (2.75 for booms and 2.77 for slumps) indicate rejection of the null hypothesis of no change in the dureation of booms and slumps in real commodity prices.2001, Mr. Paul Cashin, Mr. C. John McDermott, The Long-Run Behavior of Commodity Prices, →ISBN
   • For a wide class of connected open sets U, not necessarily simply connected, one proves the existence of a harmonic function on U having given boundary value (satisfying suitable integrability conditions) by taking the sup of the subharmonic functions having this boundary value.2003 -, Serge Lang -, Complex Analysis, →ISBN, page 271

Noun (4)

sup (plural sups)

1. (colloquial) Supplement.

Noun (5)

sup (plural sups)

1. (Cambridge University slang) A supervision.

Proper noun capitalized: SUP

SUP

1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Sailors' Union of the Pacific.
2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Socialist Unity Party.
3. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Scottish Unionist Party.
4. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Stanford University Press.
5. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Software Upgrade Protocol.

Noun (6) capitalized: SUP

SUP (countable and uncountable, plural SUPs)

1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of standup paddleboarding.
2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of standup paddleboard.
3. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of selective ultraviolet phototherapy.
4. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of single-use plastic(s).
5. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of shared use path.