yip

plural yips

1. A sharp, high-pitched bark.

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   I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.

   1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

present singular third person yips · participle present yipping · participle past yipped · past yipped

1. To bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice.

plural Yips

1. A surname from Cantonese.