yup

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yup (çoğulu yups)

1. (teklifsiz konuşma) he, evet
   • 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.

     — 1981, Patrick F. McManus; Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, s. 196
   • But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...

     — 1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7, s. 147
   • She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope.

     — 1999, Caitlyn's Cowboy, s. 33
   • It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.

     — 2002, Tom Magliozzi; Ray Magliozzi; Greg Proops, In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave
   • Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.

     — 2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling, s. 278
   • 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.

     — 2015, Sarah Price, Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion
   • 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.

     — 17 Ağustos 2017, Michael Siebert, “Picking the bones at Smurfit-Stone”, Missoula Independent

Eş anlamlılar

• yep

Karşıt anlamlılar

• nope

Ünlem

yup

1. (teklifsiz konuşma) he, evet

Köken 2

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yup (çoğulu yups)

1. (teklifsiz konuşma) yuppie kavramının kısaltması
   • 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.

     — 2008, Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World
   • 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.

     — 2010, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River