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yup

noun
/jʌp/

Etymology

Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope.

Definitions

  1. A yes

    A yes; an affirmative answer.

    • One was either a Yup or a Nope, depending upon his answer to that age-old question, "Gotcher deer yet?" I, of course, was still a Nope. Although Yups and Nopes looked pretty much alike they were as different as mallards from mongooses.
    • But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...
    • She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope.

  2. Yes.

  3. Clipping of yuppie.

    • What we have these days is a diverse spectrum of yuppiness: guppies, buppies, indie yups, paleo-yups, luxe yups, schlub yups, dharma yups, tyro yups, crypto-yups.
    • He idled at a red light, saw two yups in matching cranberry crewnecks and khaki cargo shorts sitting on the pavement outside what used to be Primo's Pizza.
    • Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels […]
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Initialism of Yale University Press.

    2. Initialism of young urban professional.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for yup. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA