oops
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of oops
6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
intj
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(colloquial)Acknowledging a mistake.
“Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.”
“Oops, I did it again / I played with your heart, got lost in the game”
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intj
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(colloquial)Acknowledging a mistake.
“Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.”
“Oops, I did it again / I played with your heart, got lost in the game”
noun
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A minor mistake or unforeseen difficulty.
“It's an oops, but one that's your fault, not your puppy's.”
“Every plan and every activity has an “oops.” Oops, we forgot to..., oops, who was supposed to do that? We all have experienced “oopses”.”
“Isn't she the same woman who works at Wings that you and Billy almost got arrested for helping her with her last little oops?”
“My parents had moved to this house, which sat on the border of Corktown and Mexicantown, from their tiny apartment in Ann Arbor—once they found out that their little oops was actually two little oops.”
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of object-oriented programming system.
- (form-of, plural)plural of OOP
verb
- (colloquial, intransitive)To make a mistake; to blunder.
- (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of OOP
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Etymology
A presumably 'natural' exclamation, attested in writing since 1921. Related to or a variation of whoops (itself attested since 1933). A shortening of whoops-a-daisy, whoopsie-daisy, or oops-a-daisy, which in turn is a mispronunciation of ups-a-daisy or upsy-daisy.
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