pup tent

noun

Origin:
1860–65, Americanism

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pup tent
 
n
another name for shelter tent

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Pup tent is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
Lying in my pup tent flat down with two blankets between me and the ground and
  am feeling fine.
We had the run of a patio, an above-ground swimming pool and a clubhouse
  fashioned from an old pup tent.
Well, in this area all the nurses had to put up a pup tent.
She set up a pup tent with a fake fire and read to the students.
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