Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To open.
- n. A trough used in South Africa for sheep-washing.
Wiktionary
- v. to open (a door, gate etc.)
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To open.
Etymologies
- Blend of do and up, from Middle English don up ("to open"). Compare don, doff, dout. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Here the exec statement re-opens stdout on the log file and then re-opens stderr on the same thing that stdout is opened on (this is how you duplicate file descriptors, aka dup them).”
Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
“Face it - You forgot that once he loses the GE, he'll basically have use dup his political capital and won't get a second chance to run his change campaign ... hahahaha.”
“The Daily Record talked to Robert Pattinson, who seems to have picke dup some phobias from Twilight, or at least a sense of his own mortality.”
“(Please forgive me if this shows up as a dup: unforced error on my part)”
“After Westar dup up the dirt next door (during this last expansion) and brought in an industrial vacuum that went into the ground sucking up who knows what, we all got sick.”
“I hope this is not a dup post by me, but in mid comment I decided against my better judgement to look at your link.”
“I think the point is: Aren't both ballots clearly marked at the time the dup. is created?”
Coleman Camp Launches Last-Minute Effort To Undo Franken's 48-Vote Lead
“Aren't both ballots clearly marked at the time the dup. is created?”
Coleman Camp Launches Last-Minute Effort To Undo Franken's 48-Vote Lead
“I had quite enjoyed Maitland's most recent mystery to be published in the US, NO TRACE from St. Martin's Press, so I picke dup THE VERGE PRACTICE, which had been published just before that by Arcade.”
“Soon he was sending out these poems to journals and getting them picked dup by journals.”
Tepid : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dup’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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South African
kopje, baas, nek, dup, free-stater, Taal, kakie, braai, trap-bath split, basutos, tagati, kloof and 214 more...
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Retrologisms
We're bringing it back.
Funky Old English and Middle English words presented for you.swyve, gowk, hwæt, droze, angnaegl, cashmarie, frith, cuttystool, scrid, perfract, cogitabund, juise and 41 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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