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yep

interjectionnouncommon in dialogue

  • //jɛp//
  • /[jɛp̚]/
  • /[jɛʔ]/
  • /[jɛʔp̚]/

Yes.

interjection

  1. 1

    informalYes.

Etymology

Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yup, nope, welp, and ope. Compare also German jap (“yep”).

noun

  1. 1

    informalYes.

    I'll take that as a yep, then.

Forms

plural
yeps
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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).