ups
/ʌps/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
name
Initialism of United Parañaque Subdivision: several subdivisions in barangays San Martin De Porres, San Isidro, BF Homes, and Marcelo Green Village, in Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines.
noun
plural of up
Example Sentences
- "If you don't want to lose all your data when the power goes out, you should UPS your computer."
- "I UPSed the headset off to Flightcom at its headquarters in Oregon with a letter explaining that the headset was not working and that I was not the original owner and didn't have the slightest idea how old it was."
- "I don't think it was to trivialize, but she said about UPSing, maybe we will just UPS it. Mr. Chairman, we are talking lives of Americans in places like Somalia. I mean no one is talking about UPSing the bodies of American soldiers back."
- "It beats carrying the copies around. "UPSing where?" To a friend back home. With a note saying to sit on it until I pick it up.""
- "Alice had UPSed it to the Black Hills in one of the cartons containing a select group of artifacts from their past that arrived a week after her move."
- "I bought it, U-hauled it, moved it upstairs and down, stuffed it into elevators, stored it, boxed it, UPSed it, donated it to charities, refinished it, sold it at yard sales, filled dumpsters with it, cursed it and cried over it."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Chemistry.
Inflected Forms
UPSes (plural)
UPSes (present, singular)
UPSing (participle, present)
UPSed (participle, past)
UPSed (past)
more ups (comparative)
most ups (superlative)