nope

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   No.emphaticinformaloften

   • "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."
   • "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."

ant. yup · yep · yeah

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   A negative reply, no.informal

   • I'll take that as a nope, then.
   • By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.
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   An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.slang

   • This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.

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   A bullfinch.archaic

   • I may note that olp, if pronounced ope, as it sometimes is, may be the origin of nope; an ope, and a nope, differ as little as possible.

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   A blow to the head.East-MidlandsNorthern-England

   • (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw.
   • I'll fetch thee a nope.

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   To hit someone on the head.East-MidlandsNorthern-Englandarchaic

   • "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.
   • The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"