yup

plural yups

1. informalA yes; an affirmative answer.

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

   2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling, page 278

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   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.

   1981, Patrick F. McManus, Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, →ISBN, page 196

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

   1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7, page 147

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

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

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

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

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

   Synonyms: yep

1. informalYes.

plural yups

1. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of yuppie.

   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.

   2010, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN

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   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.

   2008, Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World, →ISBN

   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 […]

   2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Yale University Press.

plural YUPs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of young urban professional.