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uh-oh

interjectioncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌʌˈəʊ//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈʔʌ̆ʔ˦əʊ˨]/
  • United States//ˌʌˈoʊ//
  • United States/[ˈʔʌ̆ʔ˦oʊ˨]/

An exclamation of error, concern, or awareness of a problem.

interjection

  1. 1

    informalAn exclamation of error, concern, or awareness of a problem.

    Uh-oh! I made a mistake.

    Uh-oh. I emerged from the Underground station at London King's Cross the other day to find a dense throng of people filling the main line station's concourse.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).