cheups

plural cheupses

1. alternativeAlternative form of steups.

   Ma awoke every morning with a groan quickly routed by a brief loud cheups.

   2000, Merle Hodge, Crick Crack, Monkey, page 18

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   Tee notices that "all that Ma could not crush or confound with a barked word or surmount with her lioness strength, she reacted to with a cheups, more or less loud, more or less long" (Hodge 16).

   2003, Cahiers de la Femme - Volume 23, Issues 1-2, page 121

   The other two are vaguely disappointed, who dare not confess their disappointment more loudly than a careful cheups, and a small band of intellectuals, expatriates, name-droppers who tend to damn them.

   2013, Derek Walcott, Christopher B. Balme, Gordon Collier, Derek Walcott: The Journeyman Years. Volume 2

present singular third person cheupses · participle present cheupsing · participle past cheupsed · past cheupsed

1. alternativeAlternative form of steups.

   He cheups. Why de ass she can't leave me alone?

   2007, E.J. Olsen, John C. Hocking, Detroit Noir, page 215

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   Why I don't know, but men seldom, if ever, cheups.

   1985, Fuse - Volume 9, Issues 1-6, page 19

   You would have heard Ms. Watson say he was bewitched, cheupsing her mouth in disgust as she said it, without fear of anyone in Roebuck protesting against her shop keeping business, as was recently done against Chick-Fil-A,^([sic]) when its president voiced his opposition to the gay lifestyle.

   2018, Sylvester Carrington, It's Your Word Against Mine