yup
/jʌp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers..."
- "She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope."
- "It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes."
- "Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay."
- "His hands moved, gesturing towards the two bidders, enticing them to raise their stakes against each other, as he chanted a litany of numbers followed by “going once, going twice” only to be followed by a resounding “yup” as he turned, alternately, towards each of the two men."