YELP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yelp mean? 

• YELP (noun)
  The noun YELP has 1 sense:

1. a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)

  Familiarity information: YELP used as a noun is very rare.

• YELP (verb)
  The verb YELP has 1 sense:

1. bark in a high-pitched tone

  Familiarity information: YELP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

yelp; yelping; yip

Hypernyms ("yelp" is a kind of...):

cry (the characteristic utterance of an animal)

Derivation:

yelp (bark in a high-pitched tone)

• YELP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they yelp    ... he / she / it yelps   
Past simple: yelped   
Past participle: yelped   
-ing form: yelping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bark in a high-pitched tone

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

yap; yelp; yip

Context example:

the puppies yelped

Hypernyms (to "yelp" is one way to...):

bark (make barking sounds)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

yelp; yelping (a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog))

 Context examples 

And with every rock he struck, he yelped.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As the moments passed the yelps grew closer and louder.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Often their yelps drifted across the desolation, and once he saw three of them slinking away before his path.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Pilot pricked up his ears when I came in: then he jumped up with a yelp and a whine, and bounded towards me: he almost knocked the tray from my hands.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And so those two brave-hearted fellows made their way amidst the yelping roughs, like two wounded lions amidst a pack of wolves and jackals.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was answered from behind Dr. Seward's house by the yelping of dogs, and after about a minute three terriers came dashing round the corner of the house.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Indian looked up at him, and then, with a little yelp, cringed to the ground and clung to Lord John's leg.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then she could not endure the dog, a fat, cross beast who snarled and yelped at her when she made his toilet, and who lay on his back with all his legs in the air and a most idiotic expression of countenance when he wanted something to eat, which was about a dozen times a day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Their thin, shrill voices rose high above the roar of the flames and the crash of the masonry, like the yelping of a pack of wolves who see their quarry before them and know that they have well-nigh run him down.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He broke down and began to cry and yelp.

(White Fang, by Jack London)