A pup is a gay adolescent or young man, with many of the attributes we associate with puppy dogs: cute, inexperienced, naive, bright-eyed, eager, energetic, huggable. Similar to a Twink, but with the possibility of a brain, not as edgy or trendy, and minus the sense that they're always one step from being totally wasted. A pup is also very like a cub, but isn't interested in bear culture, not a bear apprentice.

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy

A shaved male Shi Tzu that looks like a beagle puppy. He's an adult male that looks like a puppy but isn't one, he just has a babyface.

A word originating in the dangan and gurteen areas that has taken galway like wild-fire. It is defined as a person who undertakes needless and comical troublemaking against a friend purely for their own and the people around them's amusement.

Short for "pickups" in guitar lingo. One pickup is a "pup".

a younger man/boy that an older woman is involved with sexually. He is a pup because he is still trainable, unlike a "dawg".

adj. Origin "puppy" another word of saying someone is cute.