ups
/ʌps/
ups is the plural of up.
ups is the third-person singular simple present indicative of up.
ups is the misspelling of oops.
ups is the alternative spelling of upz.
Meaning of up
Noun
up (countable and uncountable, plural ups)
- The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
- Up is a good way to go.
- A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
- I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.
- An up quark.
- An upstairs room of a two story house.
- She lives in a two-up two-down.
Meaning of oops
Interjection
Noun (1) capitalized: UPS
UPS (countable and uncountable, plural UPSes)
- Initialism of uninterruptible power supply/source.
- Initialism of ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy.
- Initialism of ubiquitin-proteasome system.
Verb (1) capitalized: UPS
UPS (third-person singular simple present UPSes, present participle UPSing, simple past and past participle UPSed)
- To connect a device to an uninterruptible power supply.
- If you don't want to lose all your data when the power goes out, you should UPS your computer.
Verb (2) capitalized: UPS
UPS (third-person singular simple present UPSes, present participle UPSing, simple past and past participle UPSed)
- To send a package or letter by UPS, or a competitor.
- I UPSed the headset off to Flightcom at its headquarters in Oregon with a letter explaining that the headset was not working and that I was not the original owner and didn't have the slightest idea how old it was.1993, George S. Hunt (Ann Arbor, Michigan), “Flying Mail/Flightcom fan”, in Flying Magazine, volume 120, number 5, page 24
- I don't think it was to trivialize, but she said about UPSing, maybe we will just UPS it. Mr. Chairman, we are talking lives of Americans in places like Somalia. I mean no one is talking about UPSing the bodies of American soldiers back.1994, United States, Congress, House, Committee on Armed Services, Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995--S. 2182 (H. R. 4301) and Oversight of Previously Authorized...
Proper noun capitalized: UPS
UPS
- Initialism of United Parcel Service.
- When C.J. Parker got his new passport in the mail, he was initially in disbelief. Parker thought that the contents of the UPS envelope that he had opened must have been a mistake: The 27-year-old’s corrected birth certificate and a court order certifying his name and gender change had seemingly...2025 March 3, Nico Lang, ““Simply Trying to Exist”: How Trans Americans Are Navigating the Confusion and Chaos of Trump’s Passport Policy”, in Them, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2025
- Initialism of United Parañaque Subdivision: several subdivisions in barangays San Martin De Porres, San Isidro, BF Homes, and Marcelo Green Village, in Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Noun (2) capitalized: UPs
UPs
- plural of UP
Forms of ups
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more ups |
| superlative | most ups |
| Noun | |
| plural | UPSes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | UPSes |
| present participle | UPSing |
| past participle | UPSed |
| past | UPSed |
Words formed from ups
Phrases with ups
38 more phrasesFewer phrases
- call ups
- fuck ups
- lead ups
- line ups
- Page Ups
- pick ups
- piss ups
- rark ups
- ride ups
- roll ups
- take ups
- turn ups
- wash ups
- wind ups
- break ups
- catch ups
- flare ups
- grown ups
- heads ups
- punch ups
- ups stick
- bubble ups
- thumbs ups
- ups sticks
- knocker ups
- summing ups
- zap 'em ups
- beat 'em ups
- ups the ante
- ups the game
- blast 'em ups
- loosening ups
- shoot 'em ups
- ups to eleven
- ups one's game
- ups and disappears
- turn ups for the book
- turn ups for the books
Words that rhyme with ups
Questions about ups
- What does ups mean?
- Ups means to connect a device to an uninterruptible power supply.
- What is ups the plural of?
- Ups is the plural of up.
- What part of speech is ups?
- Ups can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ups?
- Ups is pronounced /ʌps/.
- What is the plural of ups?
- The plural of ups is UPSes.
Words near ups in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ups (page history and authors); UPS (page history and authors); UPs (page history and authors); up (page history and authors); oops (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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