dup

¹ American  

[duhp] / dʌp /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

dupped, dupping

1. to open.

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dup. ² American  

abbreviation

1. duplicate.

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dup British  

/ dʌp /

verb

1. archaic (tr) to open

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Etymology

Origin of dup

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

Example Sentences

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

She wants them to churn spicy cod roe and sea urchin into the warm rice and tuna of Haenyeo’s hwe dup bap, and then to swab grilled oysters in melted seaweed butter.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2019

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

Shi nu dup multe zile, adunint toate fec orul c el maĭ tinr, s'a dus intr 'o car departe, shi akolo a rsipit toat avuciea ca, viecuind intr dezmĭerdrĭ.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)