Definition of yelp
: a sharp shrill bark or cry (as of a dog or turkey);
also
: squeal
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In an adjacent locker room with her Cleveland teammates, each yelp pumped the senior guard up more and more.
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Valentich later heard a bark and a yelp before Champ returned.
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Nick Mione said Max misses Madie and cries and yelps in her absence.
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The deputy lost sight of them both but then heard a bark and a yelp, and Champ soon returned.
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Images of white plastic hands (and futuristic gold ones, and a few human ones) crop up several times as the music shifts from downbeat future funk to mournful acoustic blues, wild yelps and meditative piano passages.
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His semi-comprehensible wails, yelps, gasps and shouts exploded with a personality and intensity that matched the tone of his mates’ precision mayhem.
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Meanwhile, the sound of the gunshot makes Ally yelp (too much pressure, obviously
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He's been front-page for months, every bleat, blurt, yelp, and belch.
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Origin and Etymology of yelp
Definition of yelp
: to utter a sharp quick shrill cry
- dogs yelp
: to utter with a yelp
Examples of yelp in a Sentence
The dog yelped in pain.
yelped with surprise when everything fell off the closet shelf and onto his head
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Sam yelps, drops her shiny, silver vibrator, and demands to know why Joelle wasn't still at study group (study group was an hour ago and Sam had apparently been at it for a while).
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Judging from some of the crazed groans and yelps heard at Tuesday’s screening, well ….
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The new safety netting, extended past the dugouts, didn't seem to bother anyone, though some baseball purists are sure to yelp.
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Soon, that silence was pierced by the barking and yelping canine officers.
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Quinn says her son hums and yelps to soothe himself.
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Their feverish exertions, gasps and yelps theatricalize a common plight.
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The audience yelped incredulously, Spicer beamed proudly, and Colbert politely asked the crowd to give it up one more time for Melissa McCarthy.
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According to Collado, several residents in the Meridian Avenue apartment building heard Lucy yelping and crying and went to take a look.
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Origin and Etymology of yelp
Middle English, to boast, cry out, from Old English gielpan to boast, exult; akin to Old High German gelph outcry
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First Known Use: 1553
in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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Definition of yelp for Students
yelped;
yelping
: to make a quick high-pitched bark or cry
- A dog was yelping in pain.
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