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cheups

cheups is the alternative form of steups.

Meaning of steups

Noun

steups (plural steupses)

  1. (Caribbean, dialectal, onomatopoeic) The sound made by sucking one's teeth.
    • A loud steups followed.2003, Ramabai Espinet, The Swinging Bridge, page 45

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Forms of cheups

Noun
pluralcheupses
Verb
third-person singular presentcheupses
present participlecheupsing
past participlecheupsed
pastcheupsed

Questions about cheups

What is cheups the alternative form of?
Cheups is the alternative form of steups.

Words near cheups in the dictionary

  1. Cheung
  2. Cheung Chau
  3. cheung fun
  4. Cheung Sha Wan
  5. Cheungs
  6. cheups
  7. cheupsed
  8. cheupses
  9. cheupsing
  10. Cheuvront
  11. Cheuvronts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheups (page history and authors); steups (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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