noun

• (horticulture) A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
• (film, television) A kind of small spotlight.
  "For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]"
• (chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
• (sex, slang) Someone who participates in pup play (the sexual practice of role-playing as a young dog).
  "It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy."

verb

• (intransitive) To give birth to pups.

noun

• (computing) Acronym of potentially unwanted program, software that most computer users do not want on their computers, such as adware.
• (insurance) Paid up
• (biochemistry) Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein

name

• (computing) Initialism of Private Use Plane: either of the two Unicode planes (planes 15 and 16) reserved for private use.