welp

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/wɛlp/[wɛlp̚]

interjection

Well. Typically used to express exasperation, a matter-of-fact or unenthusiastic attitude, or helpless acceptance of something surprising.

UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

welp1

interjection

alternative whelp

  1. colloquialWell. Typically used to express exasperation, a matter-of-fact or unenthusiastic attitude, or helpless acceptance of something surprising.

    Ah, jeez. Oh boy. Yikes. It seems the human culmination of American liberalism lost to a senile (alleged!) rapist game show host. Welp. Pobody’s nerfect, as the old saying goes.

    2019 October 15, Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, Will Menaker, Virgil Texas, “Libs”, in The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, →ISBN, page 71
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    “Nuclear power is a dual-use technology. It can be weaponized.” Welp. “It is sort of what we anticipated, that there would be a Three Mile Island moment around data sharing that would rock the research community,” Lazer says.

    2018 March 25, Adam Rogers, “The Cambridge Analytica Data Apocalypse Was Predicted in 2007”, in Wired

Welp2

proper nounWelp (plural Welps)

plural Welps

Origin

Representing well pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end: well + -p.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Sounds the same

whelp (wine–whine merger)

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Cite this entry
APA

welp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/welp

MLA

“welp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/welp. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “welp,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/welp.

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