nopes

Noun (1)

nope (plural nopes)

1. (informal) A negative reply, no.
   • I'll take that as a nope, then.
2. (slang) An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
   • This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, https://web.archive.org/web/20160731215210/http://moviepilot.com/posts/4016375

Noun (2)

nope (plural nopes)

1. (archaic, except near Staffordshire) A bullfinch.
   • To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005)...

Noun (3)

nope (plural nopes)

1. (East-Midlands, Northern England) A blow to the head.
   • (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw.1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, page xci

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