Usually means: Drain preventing water accumulation, ship.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. scupper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scupper: Merriam-Webster
  3. scupper, scupper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scupper, scupper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scupper: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scupper: Vocabulary.com
  7. scupper: Wordnik
  8. scupper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scupper: Wiktionary
  10. scupper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scupper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scupper: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scupper: Dictionary.com
  14. scupper: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Scupper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scupper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scupper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scupper: Rhymezone
  19. Scupper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scupper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scupper: FreeDictionary.org
  22. scupper: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. scupper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scupper: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scupper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scupper: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scupper: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scupper, scupper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scupper: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. scupper: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Scupper: Construction Glossary
  4. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See scuppering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (nautical) A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.
noun:  (architecture) A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
verb:  (transitive, UK) To thwart or destroy, especially something belonging or pertaining to another.

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