"yup" meaning in English

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Interjection

IPA: /jʌp/, [jʌp̚] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yup.wav [Southern-England]
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: {{m|en|yeah}} yeah, {{glossary|excrescent}} excrescent, {{no deprecated lang param usage|IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/|lang=}} IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/, {{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)
    Sense id: en-yup-en-intj-X5oreVYV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 6 25 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 71 8 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /jʌp/, [jʌp̚] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yup.wav [Southern-England] 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: {{m|en|yeah}} yeah, {{glossary|excrescent}} excrescent, {{no deprecated lang param usage|IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/|lang=}} IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/, {{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 [Southern-England] 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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      "tags": [
        "informal"
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          "ref": "1981, Patrick F. McManus, Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, 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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        {
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          "text": "But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic \"yups\" and \"nups\" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1999, Caitlyn's Cowboy, page 33",
          "text": "She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a \"yup\" or a \"nope.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi, Greg Proops, In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling, page 278",
          "text": "Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Sarah Price, Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion",
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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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "(informal) A yes; an affirmative answer."
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          "word": "yep"
        }
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    },
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      "ipa": "[jʌp̚]"
    },
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        "(informal) Yes."
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          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "jo"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "word": "jep"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "(informal) yes",
          "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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  "etymology_text": "Shortening.",
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          "word": "yuppie"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World",
          "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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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        "(informal) Clipping of yuppie."
      ],
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "text": "She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a \"yup\" or a \"nope.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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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",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling, page 278",
          "text": "Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Sarah Price, Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion",
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A yes; an affirmative answer."
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        "(informal) A yes; an affirmative answer."
      ],
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      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "yep"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yup"
}

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    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English three-letter words",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌp",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌp/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "yeah"
      },
      "expansion": "yeah",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "excrescent"
      },
      "expansion": "excrescent",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/",
        "lang": ""
      },
      "expansion": "IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/",
      "name": "no deprecated lang param usage"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "/p/"
      },
      "expansion": "IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/",
      "name": "IPA"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "yup",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Yes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Yes",
          "yes"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Yes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/jʌp/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[jʌp̚]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌp"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yup.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-yup.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-yup.wav.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "naʕam",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "نَعَم"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔī",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "إِي"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "aah",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "اه"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "jo"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "word": "jep"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "(informal) yes",
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yup"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English three-letter words",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌp",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌp/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Shortening.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "yup (plural yups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "yuppie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English clippings",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of yuppie."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "yuppie",
          "yuppie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Clipping of yuppie."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/jʌp/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[jʌp̚]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌp"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yup.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-yup.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-yup.wav.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yup"
}

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