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SHTUP
Definition of SHTUP
verb
push
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
SHTUP carries 3 further meanings.
verb
to push
verb
to have sex
noun
slang for sexual intercourse
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Yiddish שטופּן (shtupn), perhaps related to German stupsen (“nudge”), or possibly German stopfen (“stuff”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,600)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SHTUP · 3 relatives in the game
SHTUP in a sentence
“He would marry a new virgin, "shtup" her, then send her pretty self away pretty much immediately ... to be beheaded.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHTUP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 82 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHTUP starts with S and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read HPSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SHTUP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found SHTUP?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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