[
US
/ˈkɹup/
]
[ UK /kɹˈuːp/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈuːp/ ]
NOUN
- a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
- the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
How To Use croup In A Sentence
- `A lot of young ones come down with the croup from time to time. LASTING TREASURES
- 'I got frightened at the idea of croup, and cross-questioned him to discover if my trots were among the sufferers, but he shook his head. "Carrots": Just a Little Boy
- It chiefly differs in the croup being blue instead of snow-white; but as Mr. Blyth informs me, the tint varies, being sometimes albescent. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
- Being in critique croups and entering contests and getting rejections often makes me doubt my writing. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » New Year’s Resolutions
- No, Sed, I's 'fraid you might git the croups an' die. Plantation Sketches
- Here it is used for "croupade," "a high curvet in which the hind legs are brought up under the belly of the horse" (_N. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
- If you are not able to break your child's fast breathing and croupy cough, call your child's doctor or seek medical attention as soon as possible.
- The croupier slid the card from the shoe and turned it face up. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
- Tertiary colleges have closed regular courses to train croupiers and dealers for the casinos.
- _The course of croupous pneumonia_ is typical, and unless it terminates fatally in the first stage, the periods of congestion, hepatization and resolution follow each other in regular manner. Common Diseases of Farm Animals