▪ I. scup, n.1 U.S.
(skʌp)
[a. Du. schop.]
A swing.
| 1848 Bartlett Dict. Amer., Scup... A New York word. 1849 Miss Warner Wide Wide World xi, A scup! maybe you don't know it by that name [said Mr. Van Brunt]; some..folks call it a swing. |
▪ II. scup, n.2 U.S.
(skʌp)
[Shortened a. Narragansett mishcup ‘thick-scaled’, f. mishe large + cuppi scale.]
The fish Pagrus argyrops; = paugie.
| 1848 Bartlett Dict. Amer., Scup. 1873 S. Powel in Rep. U.S. Fish Commission 1871–2, 74 The scup are known to be schooling, wandering fish of the high seas, and come from the Gulf Stream and from the Florida Cape. |
▪ III. scup, v. U.S.
(skʌp)
[a. Du. schoppen, cf. schop, scup n.1]
(See quot.)
| 1848 Bartlett Dict. Amer., To Scup..to swing. Common in New York. |