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dup

1 American  
[duhp] / dʌp /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.
dupped, dupping
  1. to open.


dup. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. duplicate.


dup British  
/ dʌp /

verb

  1. archaic (tr) to open

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of dup

1540–50; contraction of do 1 + up; doff, don 2

Example Sentences

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She picked up the first award of the night - best pop dup performance - for Ghost in the Machine, a collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2024

Recommended Dishes Pyunche salad; cucumber kimchi; ssam buns; hwe dup bap; soon du bu; gochu ramyun; Fish Coop; so ramyun.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2017

But the amberjack salad with chimichurri and brown-butter vinaigrette is very delicious, as is the hwe dup bap — sashimi and trout roe over warm rice made extra-fishy by tiny black dots of flyingfish roe.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2017

The other great Korean rice salad is probably hwe dup bap, which involves cubes of raw fish, dried seaweed, chopped greens and more of that sweet, funky gojuchang, tossed in bowls as big as hubcaps.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2014

Tower ye yander is the kene, dup the gygger, and maund that is bene shyp.

From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John