PUT-PUT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: put-putted    , put-putting   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small gasoline engine (as on motor boat)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("put-put" is a kind of...):

gasoline engine; petrol engine (an internal-combustion engine that burns gasoline; most automobiles are driven by gasoline engines)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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