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- Dictionaryscupper/ˈskʌpə/
noun
- 1. a hole in a ship's side to carry water overboard from the deck.
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SCUPPER definition: 1. to sink your own ship on purpose 2. to cause something such as a plan or an opportunity to fail…. Learn more.
The meaning of SCUPPER is an opening cut through the bulwarks of a ship so that water falling on deck may flow overboard. How to use scupper in a sentence. Scupper Has Military Origins
Scupper definition: a drain at the edge of a deck exposed to the weather, for allowing accumulated water to drain away into the sea or into the bilges.. See examples of SCUPPER used in a sentence.
2. a drain, closed by one or two flaps, for allowing water from the sprinkler system of a factory or the like to run off a floor of the building to the exterior. 3. any opening in the side of a building, as in a parapet, for draining off rain water.
SCUPPER meaning: 1. to sink your own ship on purpose 2. to cause something such as a plan or an opportunity to fail…. Learn more.
1. an opening at the edge of a ship's deck that allows accumulated water to drain away into the sea or into the bilges. 2. a drain, closed by one or two flaps, for allowing water from the sprinkler system of a factory or the like to run off a floor of the building to the exterior.
noun. drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard. see more. see less. type of: drain, drainpipe, waste pipe. a pipe through which liquid is carried away. verb. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position.
