Pup is a name for a

young animal In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is ''Book of St. Alba ...

, such as a

puppy A puppy is a Juvenile (organism), juvenile dog, generally one less than 12-18 months old. Puppies are markedly underdeveloped and dependent on their mothers at birth (displaying ''altriciality''), but healthy puppies grow quickly and begi ...

. Pup or Pups may also refer to:

Places

Pup Cove Borge Bay () is a large, irregularly-shaped bay that dominates the east side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was charted in 1912 by Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sorlle, and named for Captain Hans Borge of the ' ...

, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica *

Pup Creek Pup Creek is a stream in Daviess County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is a tributary of the Ohio River. Pup Creek was so named from an incident when pioneers drowned puppies in this stream. See also *List of rivers of Kentucky List of riv ...

, Kentucky, United States *

Pup Rock Rymill Bay () is a bay, wide at its mouth and indenting between Red Rock Ridge and Bertrand Ice Piedmont along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Location Rymill Bay is in the east of the larger Marguerite Bay in Graham Land on the F ...

, Graham Land, Antarctica

People

Michael Clarke (cricketer) Michael John Clarke (born 2 April 1981) is an Australian former cricketer. He was List of Australia national cricket captains, captain of the Australia national cricket team, Australian cricket team in both Test cricket, Test and One Day Inte ...

, Australian cricketer nicknamed "Pup" *

Pup Phillips George Marshall "Pup" Phillips (September 24, 1895May 1, 1953) was an American football player and coach. Early years Phillips was born on September 24, 1895, in Carnesville, Georgia, to George Sullivan Phillips and Elizabeth Witaker Hunsinger ...

(1895–1953), American football player and coach * Nisn Pups, Soviet Lithuanian-Jewish revolutionary, journalist and trade unionist

Aircraft

Beagle Pup The Beagle B.121 Pup is a 1960s British 2–4 seat single-engined training and touring aircraft built by Beagle Aircraft Limited at Shoreham Airport and Rearsby Aerodrome. Design The Pup was designed as a single-engined all-metal two-seat ae ...

, a 1960s British light aircraft * Dart Pup, a one-off British monoplane first flown in 1936 *

Keystone NK The Keystone NK or Keystone Pup was a two-seat biplane trainer built by Keystone Aircraft for the United States Navy. Design and development The NK was an open-cockpit two-seat biplane with a convertible wheel or float landing gear. It was powe ...

or Pup, a US Navy two-seat biplane trainer introduced in 1930 *

Preceptor N3 Pup The Preceptor N3 Pup is a family of ultralight, tube-and-fabric, high-wing, homebuilt aircraft. Kits were produced and marketed by Preceptor Aircraft, of Rutherfordton, North Carolina.Vandermeullen, Richard: ''2012 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide' ...

, a family of ultralight homebuilt aircraft * Pup, a variant of the

Aviat Husky The Aviat Husky is a tandem two-seat, high-wing, utility light aircraft built by Aviat Aircraft of Afton, Wyoming.Sopwith Pup The Sopwith Pup is a British single-seater biplane fighter aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company. It entered service with the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps in the autumn of 1916. With pleasant flying characteristi ...

, an aircraft used by the British in World War I

Art, entertainment, and media

PUP (band) PUP (abbreviation for Pathetic Use of Potential) is a Canadian punk rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 2010, originally under the name Topanga. PUP's debut album ''PUP (album), PUP'' was released on October 8, 2013, on Royal Mountain Record ...

, Canadian punk band based out of Toronto * ''Pups'' (film), a 1999 film starring Burt Reynolds

Science

Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein (Pup) is a functional analog of ubiquitin found in the prokaryote ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis''. Like ubiquitin, Pup serves to direct proteins to the proteasome for protein degradation, degradation in the Pup-pro ...

Puppis Puppis ("poop deck, stern") is a constellation in the southern sky. It was originally part of the Former constellations, traditional constellation of Argo Navis (the ship of Jason and the Argonauts), which was divided into three parts, the other ...

, abbreviated "Pup", a constellation *

Sirius B Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Greek word (Latin script: ), meaning 'glowing' or 'scorching'. The star is designated Canis Majoris, Latinized to Alpha Canis Majoris, and abbre ...

, a white dwarf star affectionately known as "the Pup"

Other uses

* pup, ISO 639-3 code for the

Pulabu language Pulabu is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea ...

of Papua New Guinea *

Crosley Pup Powel Crosley Jr. (September 18, 1886 – March 28, 1961) was an American inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur. He was also a pioneer in radio broadcasting and owner of the Cincinnati Reds major league baseball team. In addition, Crosley's ...

, a low-cost AM radio introduced in 1925 *

Pup tent A shelter-half is a simple kind of partial tent designed to provide temporary shelter and concealment when combined with one or more sections. Two sheets of canvas or a similar material (the halves) are fastened together with snaps, straps or ...

, an older tent style *

Potentially unwanted program A potentially unwanted program (PUP) or potentially unwanted application (PUA) is software that a user may perceive as unwanted or unnecessary. It is used as a subjective tagging criterion by security and parental control products. Such software ma ...

, a category of generally harmless software installed on a system without user consent or with nefarious intent