Nope

/nəʊp/ · particle

Meaning

(informal, often emphatic) No..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal, often emphatic) No.
2. (informal) A negative reply, no.
3. (slang) An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
4. (archaic, except near Staffordshire) A bullfinch.
5. (East Midlands and Northern England) A blow to the head.
6. (archaic, East Midlands and Northern England) To hit someone on the head.

Example Sentences

"Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."

"No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."

“Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope. Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."

1: I will not dishonour my country's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words, 2: I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt "um-hum" and "nup-um" or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and "nope"[…]

Nope. Don't know as I do.

I'll take that as a nope, then.

By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.

This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.

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Word Forms

• nopes
• noping
• noped

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