Pulp

Quick meaning: Pulp is a noun meaning A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.

Meaning

A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
2. (ambitransitive) To make or be made into pulp.
3. (transitive, slang) To beat to a pulp.
4. (transitive) To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.
5. (fiction) Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.

Example Sentences

The Nightwing annual had what felt like a very 'pulp-ish' plot, and the Superman annual was great, with a very pulp plot and a^([sic]) incredible Doc Savage tribute cover.

The hard-hitting, action packed, thud and blunder adventure fantasy was a commodity during that somber decade: Americans paid money to forget their troubles, and the pulps were willing to sell.

Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more "pulp" than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).

The fledgling comics business was a sweatshop trade for creative hopefuls too inexperienced, too socially ill-equipped, or, more often, too minimally talented for the established avenues of hackdom, the pulps and commercial art.

Word Forms

• pulps
• pulping
• pulped

Synonyms for pulp

Depending on context, synonyms include flesh, mash, pomace, pulpish, pulpy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flesh, pulpwood, clay, toothpaste, paper, crust.

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