as in to shriek
to cry out loudly and emotionally
yelped with surprise when everything fell off the closet shelf and onto his head
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Recent Examples of yelp
Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2024
An empty soda bottle scuttles by and the wind yelps with rage and grief and then a car alarm goes off.
—Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2024
My Method Actor scatters luminous beads of sound design into a writhing body of hooks and vocal lines—sometimes murmured, others chanted, all interspersed with that trademark Yanya flourish that sounds like a sigh rising to a yelp.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2024
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Verb
Watch videos of live hens yelping and do your best to mimic their sound and cadence.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2024
An empty soda bottle scuttles by and the wind yelps with rage and grief and then a car alarm goes off.
—Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
Noun
Their picturesque settler life needs a dog to be complete, and Old Yeller — so named for his distinctive yelp — proves himself by protecting sons Travis and Arliss from a rogue bear.
—Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2024
My Method Actor scatters luminous beads of sound design into a writhing body of hooks and vocal lines—sometimes murmured, others chanted, all interspersed with that trademark Yanya flourish that sounds like a sigh rising to a yelp.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2024
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Power stick guy, the rodeo clown guys, shrieking college girls.Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 1 Oct. 2024
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Candiace is building a family of her own, and chose to pursue that journey in an environment where she was not constantly triggered into a shrieking emotional mess at each conflict.Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
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Barrymore squeals in disgust after reaching into her pocket and pulling out a sandwich.Shyla Watson, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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At the corner of St. Peter and Royal Streets, a tuba begins its rumbling and a trombone squeals; the instruments sparkle in the sunlight, glinting gold amid a gathering crowd.Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
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In the clip, Scout, Tallulah, and Rumer, along with a group of friends and family, jump and scream as Moore’s name is called out by Kerry Washington, who presented the award alongside Andrew Garfield.Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2025
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My cat's preference is screaming from the bath tub for someone to open the faucet for her.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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And on Thursday night, Ken Carter was one of about two dozen people inside a basketball gym, where the only signs a game was taking place were the squeaks of sneakers and four buzzers to signal the end of each quarter.Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
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There’s no dialogue, at least none decipherable to human ears — everything is a symphony of meows, woofs, squawks, grunts, squeaks, squeals and simian cries.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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With the screech of an electric guitar, Puddin leaned her head back, stomping her foot to the beat of the drums.Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 10 June 2024
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For two decades, the most frightening sound in the north was the screech of brakes preceding a bomb being thrown through the doors of a dance hall or pub.Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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Puppy Play While Kidman’s character Romy didn’t wear a pup hood or bark in Babygirl, the dog imagery intermixed with the Dom(me)/sub dynamics throughout the film felt at the very least like a nod to puppy play.Fran Tirado, Them, 10 Jan. 2025
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Then repot your plant using a succulent or cactus potting mix that has plenty of perlite, sand, or bark for quick drainage.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2025
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As a shape-shifting rock poet — a prophet with a nasal yowl — Dylan and his opaque words were particularly attractive for theorists of the literary, musical and conspiratorial varieties.Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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The guitar riffs recall how Mastodon sounded circa Leviathan, paired with Blythe’s inimitable yowls.Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024
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There’s no dialogue, at least none decipherable to human ears — everything is a symphony of meows, woofs, squawks, grunts, squeaks, squeals and simian cries.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Flocks of sparrows and parrots chirp and squawk in the palms overhead.Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 9 June 2024
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“Yelp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yelp. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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