sup n : a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale" [syn: swallow] v : take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon [also: supping, supped]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌp

Etymology 1

Old French soper

Verb

1. To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
2. To take supper.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     ...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.

   • 1879: Bram Stoker, Dracula

     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.

Noun

1. A sip; a small amount of food or drink.

Etymology 2

aphetic form of what's up; Sup? = What's up? = How are you doing?

Interjection

sup?

1. a superinformal greeting; slang for what's up

   Sup? : (response) Not much.

Synonyms

• wassup
• wudup

Albanian

Noun

sup m (pl., supe)

1. shoulder

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch

Noun

sup

1. soup

Slovak

Noun

sup , supy or supi p

sup stem

declension pattern or

The standard declension pattern is ; the form is used only in fairy tales or poetry when referring to it as a person.

1. vulture

Sup may refer to:

• Supper, a dinner time meal
• Supremum, in mathematics, the least upper bound of a partially ordered set
• Sup squark, the supersymmetric partner of the up quark, in particle physics
• , an HTML tag used to put a character as a superscript
• Elision of "What's up" - when used as slang for "What's up" or "How are you doing?" or "Hello"
• A shortened version of the word "supervisor"
• Sup (e-mail client), a console-based email client "for people with a lot of email"http://sup.rubyforge.org/

SUP may refer to:

• Sailors' Union of the Pacific
• Socialist Unity Party
• Scottish Unionist Party (modern), established in the mid 1980s
• Stanford University Press
• SUP Fabrik or Sup Fabrik, a Russian internet company
• Selective Ultraviolet Phototherapy
• Software Upgrade Protocol
• Spherical Unit Provided, a french heavy-metal band
• Superior Industries International Inc.
• Stand up paddle surfing
• Society for Ultrastructural Pathology
• Carnegie Mellon Software Upgrade Protocol

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