yup

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See also: yúp and YUP

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /jʌp/, [jʌp̚]
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌp

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

yup (plural yups)

  1. (informal) A yes; an affirmative answer.
    • 1981, Patrick F. McManus, Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, →ISBN, page 196:
      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.
    • 1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7, page 147:
      But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...
    • 1999, Caitlyn's Cowboy, →ISBN, page 33:
      She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope.
    • 2002, Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi, Greg Proops, In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave, →ISBN:
      It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.
    • 2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling, page 278:
      Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.
    • 2015, Sarah Price, Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2017 August 17, Michael Siebert, “Picking the bones at Smurfit-Stone”, in Missoula Independent:
      A rotating cast of auctioneers unleashed a torrent of increasingly high bids, speaking at a machine gun's pace while a chorus of increasingly aggressive "yups" emerged from the audience.
Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
  • (antonym(s) of "informal: a yes"): nope

Interjection[edit]

yup

  1. (informal) Yes.
Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Shortening.

Noun[edit]

yup (plural yups)

  1. (informal) Clipping of yuppie.
    • 2008, Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2010, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448:
      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 […]

Anagrams[edit]

Catacao[edit]

Noun[edit]

yup

  1. water

References[edit]

  • Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 261

Dutch[edit]

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English yup.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

yup m (plural yuppen, diminutive yupje n)

  1. yuppie (young upwardly mobile urban professional person)
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