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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
yelp
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
give
▪ Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection, gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom.
▪ She gave a smothered yelp of dismay.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She jumped back from the fire with a sudden yelp of pain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Denice lets out little yelps of laughter at the occasional humorous moments and squirms and groans during the gory bits.
▪ I could tell by the yelps of anguish from the centralizers in Washington if by no other way.
▪ Only during a stop do they howl or yelp, as the frustration of inactivity gets to them.
▪ Ten minutes later, from somewhere ahead, I heard a little yelp and camel noises.
▪ The song crescendos and is destroyed in a flurry of yelps and crashing cymbals.
▪ Then they withdrew the arrows and held them up to view as before, with triumphant yelps.
▪ They woke in panic and, accompanied by Clarissa's yelps, were thrown out.
▪ Whimperings, body movements, tail-wags, even little yelps are all heard to emanate from sleeping canines.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yelp

Yelp \Yelp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelped; p. pr. & vb. n. Yelping.] [OE. yelpen, [yogh]elpen, to boast, boast noisily, AS. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; akin to OHG. gelph arrogant: cf. Icel. gj[=a]lpa to yelp. Cf. Yap.]

  1. To boast. [Obs.]

    I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe.
    --Chaucer.

  2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.

    A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs?
    --Shak.

    At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation.
    --W. Irving.

Yelp

Yelp \Yelp\, n. A sharp, quick cry; a bark.
--Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yelp

Old English gielpan (West Saxon), gelpan (Anglian) "to boast, exult," from Proto-Germanic *gel- (cognates: Old Saxon galpon, Old Norse gjalpa "to yelp," Old Norse gjalp "boasting," Old High German gelph "outcry"), from PIE root *ghel- (1) "to cry out" (see yell (v.)). Meaning "utter a quick, sharp, bark or cry" is 1550s, probably from the noun. Related: Yelped; yelping.

yelp

Old English gielp "boasting, pride, arrogance," from source of yelp (v.). Meaning "quick, sharp bark or cry" is attested from early 16c.

Wiktionary
yelp

Etymology 1 n. 1 An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance. 2 A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail siren-sound. Etymology 2

vb. To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.

WordNet
yelp

  1. n. a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) [syn: yelping]

  2. v. bark in a high-pitched tone; "the puppies yelped" [syn: yip, yap]

Wikipedia
Yelp

Yelp is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops, hosts and markets Yelp.com and the Yelp mobile app, which publish crowd-sourced reviews about local businesses, as well as the online reservation service SeatMe and online food-delivery service Eat24. The company also trains small businesses in how to respond to reviews, hosts social events for reviewers, and provides data about businesses, including health inspection scores.

Yelp was founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees, Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman. Yelp grew quickly and raised several rounds of funding. By 2010 it had $30 million in revenues and the website had published more than 4.5 million crowd-sourced reviews. From 2009–2012, Yelp expanded throughout Europe and Asia. In 2009 it entered several negotiations with Google for a potential acquisition. Yelp became a public company in March 2012 and became profitable for the first time two years later. As of 2016, Yelp.com has 135 million monthly visitors and 95 million reviews. The company's revenues come from businesses advertising.

According to BusinessWeek, Yelp has a complicated relationship with small businesses. Criticism of Yelp focuses on the legitimacy of reviews, public statements of Yelp manipulating and blocking reviews in order to increase ad spending, as well as concerns regarding the privacy of reviewers.

Yelp (disambiguation)

Yelp is an Internet search and review service.

Yelp may also refer to:

  • Yelp (sound), a vocalization made by canines, other animals and humans
  • yelp, the help-reading application in the GNOME desktop environment
  • yelp, a type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail siren-sound

Usage examples of "yelp".

He yelped in a most unmaesterlike fashion, while Alayne turned to soothe the little lordling, but too late.

As he fumblingly releases his grip on the bandaged hand she suddenly starts and gives a tiny yelp.

At the conclusion of the message, be Bem let out a startling yelp, his eyes rolled over, and he collapsed to the floor.

To their shrill cluttering was added the yelps of Bijou and the belated screams of Lalla.

The sound was the fateful voice of Bosco, the great hound, raised in a distant cry that started as a yelp and turned into a bay.

The chuffing of the griffins grew in pitch until it became a cross between a yelp and howl.

Imbri sent, her dreamlet showing the monster yelping as he got toasted on the rump by a burning brand.

From down the stairs came the echoic yelp of a dog, then the bang of a door.

As Gerling yelped in pain, Remo hauled the older man down to the security corridor that was hidden away at the far rear wall of the building.

No mood-qualifiers or tone-deepenings, no goatish grunts or frisky yelps and giggles, no props, brandy, brothel gear, thongs, thumbscrews, third parties.

Bellman joined him, Heep with a bookhound on a leash which sniffed the ground and whimpered and yelped noisily, chops slobbering.

The hound howled in anger, then yelped in pain, finally coming back toward them, bay-howling again.

Qynh yelped in startled pain and opened her hand, dropping her sword as he hyperextended her wrist.

The snores and the yelps met in the middle of the tunnel and the two together made such a dreadful sound that Koko woke up at once.

He jumped away from the desk toward the wall, just as Nask let out a yelp of his own.