yup

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/jʌp/
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/jʌp/ · [jʌp̚]

Definition of yup

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (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.”
    “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.”
    “It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.”
    “Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.”
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noun

  1. (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.”
    “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.”
    “It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.”
    “Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.”
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal)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 […]”
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of young urban professional.

intj

  1. (informal)Yes.

name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Yale University Press.

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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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