pulp

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
2. (uncountable, usually) A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
3. (uncountable, usually) A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
4. (uncountable, usually) A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
5. (uncountable, usually) A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
6. (uncountable, usually) A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
7. (uncountable, usually) A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
8. (figuratively, uncountable, usually) A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To make or be made into pulp.
2. (slang, transitive) To beat to a pulp.
3. (transitive) To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.

Adj

Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.

Synonyms

flesh

🥩

mash

pith

marrow

cellulose

pulp magazine

squash

core

wood pulp

kernel

bagasse

puree

mass

delicate

powder

tabloid

mush

plasm

plasma

pod

pomace

pound

💷

powderize

pulping

residue

ruck

slime

sludge

slurry

slurrying

stock

strain

syrup

trash

volume

paper pulp

novel for the masses

popular fiction

mesocarp

fango

waste

anything mashed

soft porn

fibre pulp

mass energy

paper-mache

dental pulp

thick liquid

lean boneless meat

paper stuff

Translations

pulpe

polpa

pulpa

polpa

Fruchtfleisch

Pulpa

pasta

Brei

carne

🥩

Fleisch

🥩

πολφός

chair

🥩

pasta

pulpa dentaria

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pʌlp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pulpe

In summary

From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa.