Meaning of pup tent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A shelter tent.
2. A shelter half, one of two halves comprising a shelter tent or dog tent.
   US, historical

Examples

“Colonel Elbridge Colby in Army Talk tells us that the shelter-half, or “pup tent” made its debut during the Civil War. It seems to have been first christened “pup tent” by the Sixth Iowa Infantry at Memphis in 1862 and appears to stem etymologically from the same soldierly self-ridicule that resulted in such terms as “dogface” and “dog tags.””

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