yup

yup
/yup/, adv., n. Informal.
yes.
Also, yep.
[form of YEAH as an isolated or emphatic utterance, with p repr. closing of the lips, creating, in effect, an unreleased labial stop (and perh. also lowering the vowel); cf. the parallel use of p in NOPE]

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