pulp

Meanings

Noun

• A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
• A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.

Verb

• To make or be made into pulp.
• To beat to a pulp.
• To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.

Adjective

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

Related

Similar words

• pulpish, pulpy

Origin

• From earlier pulpe, borrowed from Latin pulpa.