Definitions for yelps

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yelps yelp

Spelling: [yelp]

IPA: /yɛlp/

Yelps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in yelps (elpsy).

Definitions for yelps

noun

1. a quick, sharp bark or cry.

verb (used with object)

1. to utter or express by or as if by yelping.

verb (used without object)

1. to give a quick, sharp, shrill cry, as a dog or fox.
2. to call or cry out sharply:

Origin of yelps

before 900; (v.) Middle English yelpen, Old English gielpan to boast; cognate with Low German galpen to croak; (noun) Middle English: boasting, Old English gielp, derivative of the v.

Examples for yelps

yelper, a town-crier; also one subject to complain or make a pitiful lamentation.

This to the yelper, while still holding the yapper well in hand.