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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A word imitative of a hiccuping or sobbing sound.

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Examples

  • Yes | No | Report from Jim in Mo wrote 1 year 10 weeks ago yoop, I almost forgot.

    A Few More Words About Politics and Targets 2008

  • Yes | No | Report from Jim in Mo wrote 1 year 9 weeks ago yoop, Last night you mentioned 'new rifle jinx'.

    A Few More Words About Politics and Targets 2008

  • And Lily, with all her little muscles alive, took a bike, jumped on it as she would on a stool and then -- yoop!

    The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

  • All this did not prevent them from working with a will -- trot, trot, trot -- when there was no Roofer on the stage and no elephants or ponies: yoop, on to the bikes and the fun began!

    The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

  • And the other, encouraged by a friendly slap, tried in her turn and -- yoop!

    The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

  • We can then explode cannon-crackers, fire anvils and yoop with our mouths open without being guilty of the slightest disrespect to our God.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • He could shoot out the lights and yoop without getting into a controversy with the chicken-court and being fined one dollar for the benefit of the state and fleeced out of forty for the behoof of thieving officials.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • 'Eh yoop, EdB he's such a carin' chap, not like those toffee nosed Tories from down South '

    Guy Fawkes' blog » GuyNews.TV 2009

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