pulpnoun
uk/pʌlp/us/pʌlp/pulp noun (WET SUBSTANCE)
[ S or U ] a soft, wet mass:
Mash the bananas to a pulp and then mix in the yogurt.
[ U ] a mixture of old paper, plant fibres, and wood mixed with water until they form a soft wet mass, used for making paper:
wood pulp
a pulp mill
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- outpouring
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
- tidal wave
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Publishing: paper & stationery
pulp noun (BOOKS)
[ U ] disapproving books and magazines that are of low quality in the way they are produced and the stories and articles they contain:
pulp fiction
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Books: kinds of books
- abridge
- annual
- anthology
- audiobook
- autobiography
- backlist
- bestiary
- digest
- e-reader
- exercise book
- fiction
- flipback
- glossy
- manuscript
- novelette
- novella
- page-turner
- paperback
- photo album
- travelogue
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Newspapers & magazines
Idiom(s)
beat sb to a pulp
pulpverb [ T ]
uk/pʌlp/us/pʌlp/to make something into a pulp:
Old newspapers are pulped and recycled.
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Squeezing and grinding
- compact
- compress
- compression
- concertina
- constrict
- crush
- depress
- firm
- grind
- ground
- mill
- pack
- pinch
- pound
- pulverize
- scrunch
- shut
- shut sth in sth
- squeeze
- squinch
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