"yup" meaning in English

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Interjection

IPA: /jʌp/, [jʌp̚] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yup.wav
Rhymes: -ʌp Etymology: Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope. Etymology templates: {{glossary|excrescent}} excrescent, {{IPA|en|/p/}} IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/ Head templates: {{en-interj}} yup
  1. (informal) Yes. Tags: informal Translations ((informal) yes): نَعَم (naʕam) (Arabic), إِي (ʔī) (Arabic), اه (aah) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), jo (Czech), jep (Dutch), jup (Dutch), jep (Finnish), joo (Finnish), ouais (French), ouep (French), jo (German), jaaha (Ingrian), sine (Italian), già (Italian), うん (un) (Japanese), ああ (aa) (Japanese), jepp (Norwegian Bokmål), آره (Persian), no (Polish), sim (Portuguese), dap (Romanian), угу́ (ugú) (Russian), ага́ (agá) (Russian), aha (Serbo-Croatian), síp (Spanish), jupp (Swedish), japp (Swedish), he (Turkish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /jʌp/, [jʌp̚] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yup.wav Forms: yups [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌp Etymology: Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope. Etymology templates: {{glossary|excrescent}} excrescent, {{IPA|en|/p/}} IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/ Head templates: {{en-noun}} yup (plural yups)
  1. (informal) A yes; an affirmative answer. Tags: informal Synonyms: yep
    Sense id: en-yup-en-noun-Dxx4pWx7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /jʌp/, [jʌp̚] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yup.wav Forms: yups [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌp Etymology: Shortening. Head templates: {{en-noun}} yup (plural yups)
  1. (informal) Clipping of yuppie. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Alternative form of: yuppie
    Sense id: en-yup-en-noun-8ze7pI2l
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1981, Patrick F. McManus, Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, →ISBN, page 196:",
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          "ref": "1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7, page 147:",
          "text": "But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic \"yups\" and \"nups\" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...",
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          "ref": "1999, Caitlyn's Cowboy, →ISBN, page 33:",
          "text": "She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a \"yup\" or a \"nope.",
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          "ref": "2002, Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi, Greg Proops, In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave, →ISBN:",
          "text": "It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.",
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          "ref": "2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling, page 278:",
          "text": "Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.",
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          "ref": "2015, Sarah Price, Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2017 August 17, Michael Siebert, “Picking the bones at Smurfit-Stone”, in Missoula Independent:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "roman": "naʕam",
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          "word": "نَعَم"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "joo"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "ouais"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "ouep"
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          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "jaaha"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "sine"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "già"
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "un",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "うん"
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          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "aa",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "ああ"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "jepp"
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "آره"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "no"
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          "sense": "(informal) yes",
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        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1981, Patrick F. McManus, Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, →ISBN, page 196:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7, page 147:",
          "text": "But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic \"yups\" and \"nups\" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Caitlyn's Cowboy, →ISBN, page 33:",
          "text": "She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a \"yup\" or a \"nope.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi, Greg Proops, In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave, →ISBN:",
          "text": "It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling, page 278:",
          "text": "Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Sarah Price, Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 August 17, Michael Siebert, “Picking the bones at Smurfit-Stone”, in Missoula Independent:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A yes; an affirmative answer."
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          "yes"
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        "(informal) A yes; an affirmative answer."
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        "informal"
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    {
      "ipa": "/jʌp/"
    },
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      "ipa": "[jʌp̚]"
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    {
      "word": "yep"
    }
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}

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    "Terms with Dutch translations",
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    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Ingrian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations"
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        "(informal) Yes."
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "naʕam",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "نَعَم"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔī",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "إِي"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "jo"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "word": "jep"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
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      "word": "jup"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "jep"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "joo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "ouais"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "ouep"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "jo"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "jaaha"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "sine"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "già"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "un",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "うん"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "aa",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "ああ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "jepp"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "آره"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "no"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "sim"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "dap"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ugú",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "угу́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "agá",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "ага́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "aha"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "síp"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "jupp"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "japp"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "he"
    }
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}

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          "ref": "2008, Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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        "Clipping of yuppie."
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        "(informal) Clipping of yuppie."
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    {
      "ipa": "[jʌp̚]"
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌp"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yup"
}

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