yup

• IPA^(key): /jʌp/
• Rhymes: -ʌp

yup (plural yups)

1. (informal) A yes; an affirmative answer.
   • 1981, Patrick F. McManus & ‎Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, →ISBN, page 196:

     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.

   • 1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7 (page 147)

     But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...

   • 1999, Caitlyn's Cowboy, →ISBN, page 33:

     She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope.

   • 2002, Tom Magliozzi, ‎Ray Magliozzi, & ‎Greg Proops, In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave, →ISBN:

     It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.

   • 2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling (page 278)

     Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.

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

     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.

   • 2017 August 17, Michael Siebert, “Picking the bones at Smurfit-Stone”, in Missoula Independent:

     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.

• yep

• (informal: a yes): nope

yup

1. (informal) Yes.

Shortening.

yup (plural yups)

1. (informal) A yuppie.
   • 2008, Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2010, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 448:

     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 […]

• Pyu, puy

yup

1. water

• Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 261

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yup m (plural yuppen, diminutive yupje n)

1. yuppie (young upwardly mobile urban professional person)