Yup

/jʌp/ · noun

Meaning

(informal) A yes; an affirmative answer..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal) A yes; an affirmative answer.
2. (informal) Yes.
3. (informal) Clipping of yuppie.

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.

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.

What we have these days is a diverse spectrum of yuppiness: guppies, buppies, indie yups, paleo-yups, luxe yups, schlub yups, dharma yups, tyro yups, crypto-yups.

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