Definition/Meaning of nope

• English - Particle: nope (emphatic, informal, often) No . 2006, Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 54: Nope . Don't know as I do. 1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, page 97: "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. " Nope . The whistle ain't blowed yet."
• English - Noun: nope (plural nopes) (informal) A negative reply, no. I'll take that as a nope , then. 1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC (2001), p. 32 By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt. (slang) An intensely undesirable…
• English - Verb: nope (third-person singular simple present nopes, present participle noping, simple past and past participle noped) (East Midlands, Northern England, archaic) To hit someone on the head . 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., page 183: " Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter. 1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore…
• English - Anagrams: open peon pone
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final [ʔ], with a purported reduction of /p/ to [ʔ] before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of [ʔ] as -p e, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with [p̚]. Therefore no + -p.…