pulp

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
2. (uncountable, usually)A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
3. (uncountable, usually)A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
4. (uncountable, usually)A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.

   “These sources do not, however, state why the drink is called lambswool. The name comes from the way the apples are roasted until they split open, and their pulp froths over the skin; this is used to float on top of the bowl of drink.”

5. (uncountable, usually)A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
6. (uncountable, usually)A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
7. (uncountable, usually)A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
8. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.

   “The hard-hitting, action packed, thud and blunder adventure fantasy was a commodity during that somber decade: Americans paid money to forget their troubles, and the pulps were willing to sell.”

   “The fledgling comics business was a sweatshop trade for creative hopefuls too inexperienced, too socially ill-equipped, or, more often, too minimally talented for the established avenues of hackdom, the pulps and commercial art.”

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To make or be made into pulp.
2. (slang, transitive)To beat to a pulp.
3. (transitive)To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.

   “The Nightwing annual had what felt like a very 'pulp-ish' plot, and the Superman annual was great, with a very pulp plot and a^([sic]) incredible Doc Savage tribute cover.”

   “Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more "pulp" than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).”