nope out

verb

To leave a place or abandon a situation or activity, usually quickly, because of feelings of fear or disgust.

“Noped outta there real quick.”

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Meanings

verbnope out (third-person singular simple present nopes out, present participle noping out, simple past and past participle noped out)

present singular third person nopes out · participle present noping out · participle past noped out · past noped out

  1. CanadaUSintransitiveslangTo leave a place or abandon a situation or activity, usually quickly, because of feelings of fear or disgust.

    Noped outta there real quick.

    2 more examples

    Van got a really bad feeling in the pit of his stomach, Dallas was right, he should have 'noped-out' of the whole situation. Such thoughts were simply moot at this stage however.

    2016, Joshua Causer, A Slacker's Road Map of The Universe

    She felt a flash of guilt about that, but it went away when he talked about working ninety-hour weeks now that he was trying to make partner. It wasn't her job to bend her life around his. And he'd noped out of hers as soon as she'd told him she was pregnant.

    2018, Zoe York, Love on the Outskirts of Town

Origin

21st century. From the idea of saying nope and getting out; compare bow out (v.i.), peace out (v.i.), and laugh away (v.t.), which illustrate similar metonymic formation of a troponym.

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APA

nope out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nope%20out

MLA

“nope out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nope%20out. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nope out,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nope%20out.

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