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In some senses, nope is marked as informal, slang, archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
all, full, mean, ready
VERB + NOPE
aid, asked, back, believed, called, gonna, heard, hearing
NOPE + NOUN
costard, god, hamburger, i'm, none, she's, you'll
PREP.
in, on, out
ADV.
anymore, properly, sometimes, then
particle
No.
"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."
noun
A negative reply, no.
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.
An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
noun
A bullfinch.
1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146, To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.
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.
"Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."
Wiktionary"No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."
Wiktionary“Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope. Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."
WiktionaryI'll take that as a nope, then.
WiktionaryBy one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.
WiktionaryThis cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
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In some senses, nope is marked as informal, slang, archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.