What does oops mean?
Oops means (colloquial) Acknowledging a mistake..
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/uːps/ · interjection
(colloquial) Acknowledging a mistake..
Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.
Oops, I did it again / I played with your heart, got lost in the game
It's an oops, but one that's your fault, not your puppy's.
Every plan and every activity has an “oops.” Oops, we forgot to..., oops, who was supposed to do that? We all have experienced “oopses”.
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?
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.
Use oops when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Oops means (colloquial) Acknowledging a mistake..
Common synonyms include oopsy, uh-oh, whoops, whoops-a-daisy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.
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