oops
/uːps/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
British/ʉwps/
oops interjection: used to acknowledge a small mistake or accident.
Interjection
- Used to acknowledge a small mistake or accident.
- Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.
- Oops, I did it again / I played with your heart, got lost in the game2000, Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, “Oops!… I Did It Again”, in Oops!… I Did It Again, performed by Britney Spears
- Synonyms:
- oopsy, uh-oh, whoops, whoops-a-daisy
- Used to indicate mild surprise or shock.
- Synonyms:
- oop
Noun (1)
oops (plural oopses or oops)
- A minor mistake or unforeseen difficulty.
- It's an oops, but one that's your fault, not your puppy's.2011, Housetraining, →ISBN, page 14
- Every plan and every activity has an “oops.” Oops, we forgot to..., oops, who was supposed to do that? We all have experienced “oopses”.2013, Bruce Tucker, Leadership at the Crossroads, →ISBN
Verb (1)
oops (third-person singular simple present oopses, present participle oopsing, simple past and past participle oopsed)
Noun (2) capitalized: OOPs
OOPs
- plural of OOP
Verb (2) capitalized: OOPs
OOPs
- third-person singular simple present indicative of OOP
Noun (3) capitalized: OOPS
OOPS
- Abbreviation of object-oriented programming system.
oops meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu
oops in Hindi
- उफ़
oops in Tamil
- ஊப்ஸ், ஊப்
oops in Marathi
- ऊप्स, उफ्
oops in Telugu
- ఊఫ్స్, ఊప్స్, ఊప్
More languagesFewer languages
- oops in Malayalam
- ഊഫ്സ്, ഊപ്സ്, ഊപ്സിംഗ്
- oops in Kannada
- ಊಫ್ಸ್, ಊಪ್ಸಿಂಗ್
- oops in Gujarati
- ઊઓપ્સ, ઓઓપ્સ, ઓઓપ્સિંગ
- oops in Tagalog
- ay
- oops in Arabic
- آهٍ ʔāhin
- oops in Malay
- oop
- oops in Indonesian
- ups
Examples of oops in a sentence
- Isn't she the same woman who works at Wings that you and Billy almost got arrested for helping her with her last little oops?2014, Al Rennie, Clearwater Oops!, →ISBN:
- My parents had moved to this house, which sat on the border of Corktown and Mexicantown, from their tiny apartment in Ann Arbor—once they found out that their little oops was actually two little oops.2015, Dawn Klehr, If You Wrong Us, →ISBN:
Synonyms of oops
Forms of oops
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | oopses |
| plural | oops |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | oopses |
| present participle | oopsing |
| past participle | oopsed |
| past | oopsed |
Origin of oops
A presumably 'natural' exclamation, attested in writing since 1921. Related to or a variation of whoops (itself attested since 1933). A shortening of whoops-a-daisy, whoopsie-daisy, or oops-a-daisy, which in turn is a mispronunciation of ups-a-daisy or upsy-daisy.
Words formed from oops
Phrases with oops
Words that rhyme with oops
Questions about oops
- What does oops mean?
- Oops means used to acknowledge a small mistake or accident.
- What is oops in Hindi?
- Oops in Hindi is उफ़. See Oops meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use oops in a sentence?
- Isn't she the same woman who works at Wings that you and Billy almost got arrested for helping her with her last little oops?
- What part of speech is oops?
- Oops can be an interjection, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce oops?
- Oops is pronounced /uːps/ (UK).
Words near oops in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: oops (page history and authors); OOPs (page history and authors); OOPS (page history and authors); oops (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); oops (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); oops (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); oops (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); oops (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); oops (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); oops (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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