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Meaning of yup | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
jʌp

Definitions

  1. ISO 639-3 language code for Yukpa
  2. A yes; an affirmative answer.
    informal
  3. Clipping of yuppie.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
  4. Initialism of Yale University Press.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  5. Initialism of young urban professional.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  6. A yes; an affirmative answer
  7. A yuppie.
  8. Yes
  9. an informal word for yes
  10. Clipping of yuppie
  11. adv (US inf: = yes) → ja, jawoll (inf)
    adv

Equivalents

العربية إي نعم نعم
Bosanski no sine ага
Čeština jo
Deutsch Jo
Español simón sip
فارسی آرِه
Suomi jep joo
Français ouais ouep
Hrvatski no sine ага
Italiano già sine
日本語 ああ うん
Kurdî jêp no no sim şîm Sine şîp
Nederlands jep jup
Polski no
Português sim
Română dap
Русский ага угу́
Српски no sine ага
Svenska japp
Türkçe he

Examples

“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.”
“He idled at a red light, saw two yups in matching cranberry crewnecks and khaki cargo shorts sitting on the pavement outside what used to be Primo's Pizza.”
“Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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