Pup Very Common

Pup has 8 different meanings across 3 categories:

Definitions

Noun

young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf

"The neighbor's new golden retriever pup chased a squirrel across the lawn."

pup whelp

an inexperienced young person

"The senior players refused to let the new pup handle the delicate final touches on the sculpture."

puppy pup

A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, or shark, or the young of certain other animals.

"After installing a free game, my antivirus flagged the new 'pup' because it started filling my screen with pop-up ads I couldn't close."

Acronym of potentially unwanted program: software that most computer users do not want on their computers, such as adware.

Verb

give birth to (a puppy)

"the dog whelped"

whelp pup

To give birth to pups.

"The mother dog went into labor and began to pup in her quiet backyard pen."

Proper Noun

Initialism of Private Use Plane: either of the two Unicode planes (planes 15 and 16) reserved for private use.

"Astronomers often refer to Sirius B as the famous 'pup' orbiting its brighter companion in the night sky."

A white dwarf star, the secondary star in the binary star system Sirius, Alpha Canis Majoris.