yipes

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Interjection[edit]

yipes

  1. Alternative form of yikes
    • 2003, Diane Muldrow, Barbara Pollak, Sweet-and-sour summer:
      Yipes! she exclaimed suddenly. I forgot to take the ice cream out of the freezer to soften it!
    • 1998, Karen Kijewski, Stray Kat Waltz:
      Their clothes were mostly uninteresting and unflattering. Her eyes lingered on a putrid floral number in fuchsia, hot pink, and turquoise. Yipes.