yup
intjEtymology Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope.
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Informal Yes.
yup
noun/jʌp/ · [jʌp̚]
Etymology Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope.
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Informal 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.1981, Patrick F. McManus, Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, →ISBN, page 196:
- But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7, page 147:
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- She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope.1999, Caitlyn's Cowboy, →ISBN, page 33:
- It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.2002, Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi, Greg Proops, In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave, →ISBN:
- Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling, page 278:
- His hands moved, gesturing towards the two bidders, enticing them to raise their stakes against each other, as he chanted a litany of numbers followed by “going once, going twice” only to be followed by a resounding “yup” as he turned, alternately, towards each of the two men.2015, Sarah Price, Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, →ISBN: