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As a noun, a tup is a ram (male sheep). As a verb it describes copulation by a ram with a ewe (female sheep).

Colloquially, tup refers to the male role in human sexual intercourse, especially if illicit. The term is used to effect in William Shakespeare's Othello, in which Iago taunts Brabantio, Desdemona's father, by shouting to him that:

Even now, now, very now
an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.
Act I, scene 1

Tup is also a nickname for the famed Tupac Shakur

Tup is also a seldom used coloquialism in parts of South Yorkshire, England, expressing interest or puzzlement in an afformentioned inccident or event

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