UPS

UPS (countable and uncountable, plural UPSes)

1. (electronics) Initialism of uninterruptible power supply/source.
2. Initialism of ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy.
3. (biochemistry) Initialism of ubiquitin-proteasome system.

• XPS

UPS (third-person singular simple present UPSes, present participle UPSing, simple past and past participle UPSed)

1. (electronics, nonstandard, transitive) To connect a device to an uninterruptible power supply.

   If you don't want to lose all your data when the power goes out, you should UPS your computer.

UPS (third-person singular simple present UPSes, present participle UPSing, simple past and past participle UPSed)

1. (informal, postal, transitive) To send a package or letter by UPS, or a competitor.

   Coordinate term: FedEx (verb)

   • 1993, George S. Hunt (Ann Arbor, Michigan), “Flying Mail/Flightcom fan”, in Flying Magazine‎^[1], volume 120, number 5, page 24:

     I UPSed the headset off to Flightcom at its headquarters in Oregon with a letter explaining that the headset was not working and that I was not the original owner and didn't have the slightest idea how old it was.

   • 1994, United States, Congress, House, Committee on Armed Services, Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995--S. 2182 (H. R. 4301) and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session Full Committee Hearings on Authorization and Oversight: Hearings Held February 2, 9, 22, 24, March 2, 3, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, April 28, and May 17, 1994, Volume 5, page 1238:

     I don't think it was to trivialize, but she said about UPSing, maybe we will just UPS it. Mr. Chairman, we are talking lives of Americans in places like Somalia. I mean no one is talking about UPSing the bodies of American soldiers back.

   • 1995, Guy Slaughter, Unprotected Witness, page 254:

     It beats carrying the copies around. "UPSing where?" To a friend back home. With a note saying to sit on it until I pick it up."

   • 2006, David Rhody, Dakota White, page 243:

     Alice had UPSed it to the Black Hills in one of the cartons containing a select group of artifacts from their past that arrived a week after her move.

   • 2008, Barbara Flanagan, Flanagan's Smart Home, The 98 Essentials for Starting Out, Starting Over, Scaling Back, page vi:

     I bought it, U-hauled it, moved it upstairs and down, stuffed it into elevators, stored it, boxed it, UPSed it, donated it to charities, refinished it, sold it at yard sales, filled dumpsters with it, cursed it and cried over it.

   • 2019, Manny Strumpf, The Uniform, page 101:

     Maybe whoever gave him the key had FedExed or UPSed it to him in the first place.

   • 2023, Reddit‎^[2]:

     Are the tickets on Ticketmaster for real? Don't want to get scammed but I see a few postings that state they can UPS the badges now that we are closer to the event? Any advice is appreciated!

UPS

1. Initialism of United Parcel Service.
   • 2025 March 3, Nico Lang, ““Simply Trying to Exist”: How Trans Americans Are Navigating the Confusion and Chaos of Trump’s Passport Policy”, in Them‎^[3]:

     When C.J. Parker got his new passport in the mail, he was initially in disbelief. Parker thought that the contents of the UPS envelope that he had opened must have been a mistake: The 27-year-old’s corrected birth certificate and a court order certifying his name and gender change had seemingly been destroyed.

2. (Philippines, chiefly Parañaque) Initialism of United Parañaque Subdivision: several subdivisions in barangays San Martin De Porres, San Isidro, BF Homes, and Marcelo Green Village, in Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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