noop

See also: nööp, and no-op

English

Particle

noop

1. (rare) Alternative form of nope
   • 1961, Connecticut State Prison (Somers, Conn.), The Bridge‎^[1], volume 1, Connecticut State Prison, page 27:

     There are people right here in Disneyland who have gone to California by rail. They never saw Utah. Kansas, yes. Idaho, O.K., Nebraska, mabe. But Utah? Uh-uh! Noop! Negative! Nope! No! It's just not there.

   • 1997 December 4, Hsin Hsin Lin, “VOICES THRU' THE TUNNEL”, in In Bytes We Travel‎^[2], World Scientific, →ISBN, page 30:

     when writing a message hmmmms..., aaahhhs, woos & ehs yip, yeap, yeah, yap, yup, yupe nope, noop & noope... are all nuance musts piping thru' the mail passage to carry a voice to understand signals

   • 2013 February 7, Adam Reed, Tesha Kondrat, “Midnight Ron” (4:31 from the start), in Archer‎^[3], season 4, episode 4, spoken by Lana Kana (Aisha Tyler):

     Lana (on phone): “Noop.” “Lana? Listen I--” “Noop.” “--need you to--” “Noop.” “--stop saying noop!” “Noop, Archer. Noop. And it's going to sound like I'm hanging up, but--” [dial tone]

   • 2021 April 14, Paul Jenkins, Christina Z., The Complete Witchblade Vol. 2‎^[4], volume 2, Image Comics, →ISBN:

     “HEY BROOKS, YOU EVER SEE ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE?” “NOOP. USUALLY GUNSHOTS OR STABBINGS. NOTHING LIKE THIS. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE DRUG-DEAL-GONE-BAD?” “WHAT MAKES YOU THINK IT'S NOT?”

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

noop

1. inflection of nopen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Scots

Alternative forms

• knoop, nup, nupe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nup/

Noun

noop (plural noops)

1. cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus.
2. cloudberry, fruit of Rubus chamaemorus.

   Synonym: averin

Derived terms

• nubberry

References

• “noop”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.