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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Caribbean, dialect, onomatopoeia) The sound made by sucking one's teeth..
A loud steups followed.
He thought he heard a loud steups somewhere from the dark.
When my mother heard this she let out a loud steups but said nothing.
‘Here?’ Petronella steups. ‘Where you think here is?’
Use steups when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Steups means (Caribbean, dialect, onomatopoeia) The sound made by sucking one's teeth..
Common synonyms include kiss one's teeth, suck one's teeth.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A loud steups followed.
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