Sekirov Dictionary

nope

UK /nəʊp/US /noʊp/

particle 1
noun 4
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 1

particle1

•
(informal) no, used to answer a question or a request
- "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet." — 1856

noun4

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(informal) A negative reply, no.
- I'll take that as a nope, then.
•
(slang) 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. — 2016
•
(Northern-England) A blow to the head.
- (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. — 1823
•
(no longer used) A bullfinch.
- 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. — 1823

verb1

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(Northern-England, no longer used) To hit someone on the head.
- "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter. — 1851

forms

noped · noping · nopes

Phrases with nope

nope out
To leave a place or abandon a situation or activity, usually quickly, because of feelings of fear or disgust.

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