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yip

[ yip ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

, yipped, yip·ping.

Origin of yip¹

1400–50; late Middle English yippe, perhaps alteration of yilpe yelp

Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.

Rosete was totally oblivious to the way on-screen fighting worked prior to studying with Yip.

A brindle bulldog, which Carl had not seen until that moment, gave a yip and started for the scene of the trouble.

Suddenly Mr. Gibney thrilled electrically to a shrill yip from Captain Scraggs.

The congested audience watched him closely, with now and then a yip, but mostly in silence.

Otherwise all six of them would go “Yip, yip, yip,” at the top of their voices.

Did one catch the exultant, shrill yip-yip-yip of the round-up or the far-carrying war yell of the Cheyenne buck?

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