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Pup

proper nounattested in dialogue

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

proper noun

  1. 1

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

Etymology

Capitalization of pup. From pups being small dogs. From being a small star next to the Dog Star.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).