Definition of "supe"

supe

/sup/

noun
plural supes
1. (dated, slang, theater) Clipping of supernumerary.: An extra or walk-on.
  Quotations
  John Wilkes would go south to Richmond, to join Ford's stock company at the old Marshall Theatre for the 1858–59 season. More work as a supe awaited “J. B. Wilkes,” but his wages this time would be better than in Philadelphia: $440 for the season, the same as his older brother earned in a week.
  2010, Nora Titone, My Thoughts Be Bloody
2. (informal) Abbreviation of superintendent.
3. (informal) Abbreviation of supervisor.
4. (Cambridge University slang) Clipping of supervision.
5. (fiction) Short for superhero.