Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as croup.
  • Short; brittle: as, “crup cake,”
  • Snappish; testy: as, “a crup answer,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Short; brittle.
  • noun See croup, the rump of a horse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of croup (the rump of a horse)

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