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Plural of yip

regular plural

The plural of yip is yips.

Forms of yip

Singularyip /jɪp/
Pluralyips
Countablecountable

Yips in a sentence

  • Mets—a job guaranteed to give anyone a good case of after-hours yips.1962 May 4, Life, volume 52, number 18, →ISSN, page 3. From the entry yips
  • Bracing as all this may be to the President, it gives his security and logistical forces the yips.1970, Newsweek, volume 76, page 13. From the entry yips
  • Defining precisely why a professional cyclist might lose his touch on descents is as difficult as explaining a golfer's yips or a striker's sudden inability to find the net.2013 May 13, William Fotheringham, The Guardian. From the entry yips

Meaning of yip

  1. noun A sharp, high-pitched bark.
  2. verb To bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice.

Full definition of yip

Questions about the plural of yip

What is the plural of yip?
The plural of yip is yips.
Is yip countable?
Yip is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yip (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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