sups

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

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

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

Noun (4)

sup (plural sups)

1. (colloquial) Supplement.

Noun (5)

sup (plural sups)

1. (Cambridge University slang) A supervision.

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