yup
/jʌp/
yup noun: a yes; an affirmative answer. Also the clipping of yuppie.
Noun (1)
yup (plural yups)
- A yes; an affirmative answer.
- 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.1981, Patrick F. McManus, Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, →ISBN, page 196
- But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7, page 147
- Synonyms:
- yep
Interjection
- Yes.
Proper noun capitalized: YUP
YUP
- Initialism of Yale University Press.
Noun (2) capitalized: YUP
YUP (plural YUPs)
- Initialism of young urban professional.
Also used as
yup is also the clipping of yuppie.
yup meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
yup in Hindi
- यप
yup in Tamil
- யூப்
yup in Bengali
- ইয়ুপ
yup in Telugu
- యప్, యూప్
More languagesFewer languages
- yup in Malayalam
- യപ്
- yup in Kannada
- ಯೂಪ್
- yup in Punjabi
- ਯੱਪ
- yup in Nepali
- यप
- yup in Arabic
- نَعَم naʕam, إِي ʔī
- yup in Persian
- آره
Examples of yup in a sentence
- She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope.1999, Caitlyn's Cowboy, →ISBN, page 33:
- One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.2002, Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi, Greg Proops, In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave, →ISBN:
- 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.2017 August 17, Michael Siebert, “Picking the bones at Smurfit-Stone”, in Missoula Independent:
Synonyms of yup
Antonyms
Forms of yup
| plural | yups |
|---|---|
| plural | YUPs |
Origin of yup
Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent /p/): yeah + -p.
Shortening.
Phrases with yup
Words that rhyme with yup
Questions about yup
- What does yup mean?
- Yup means a yes; an affirmative answer.
- What is yup in Hindi?
- Yup in Hindi is यप. See Yup meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use yup in a sentence?
- She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope.
- What part of speech is yup?
- Yup can be a noun, an interjection or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce yup?
- Yup is pronounced /jʌp/.
- What is the plural of yup?
- The plural of yup is yups.
Words near yup in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: yup (page history and authors); YUP (page history and authors); yup (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yup (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yup (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yup (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yup (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yup (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yup (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yup (Nepali, 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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