• Yip

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ɪp

    Full definition of yip

    Noun

    yip

    (plural yips)
    1. A sharp, high-pitched bark.
      • Wodehouse Offing|XII|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.
    2. A self-fulfilling defeatist or fatalist mindset, see: "The Yips".

    Verb

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