cheups
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cheups (plural cheupses)
- Alternative form of steups
- 2000, Merle Hodge, Crick Crack, Monkey, page 18:
- Ma awoke every morning with a groan quickly routed by a brief loud cheups.
- 2003, Cahiers de la Femme - Volume 23, Issues 1-2, page 121:
- Tee notices that "all that Ma could not crush or confound with a barked word or surmount with her lioness strength, she reacted to with a cheups, more or less loud, more or less long" (Hodge 16).
- 2013, Derek Walcott, Christopher B. Balme, Gordon Collier, Derek Walcott: The Journeyman Years. Volume 2:
- The other two are vaguely disappointed, who dare not confess their disappointment more loudly than a careful cheups, and a small band of intellectuals, expatriates, name-droppers who tend to damn them.
Verb[edit]
cheups (third-person singular simple present cheupses, present participle cheupsing, simple past and past participle cheupsed)
- Alternative form of steups
- 1985, Fuse - Volume 9, Issues 1-6, page 19:
- Why I don't know, but men seldom, if ever, cheups.
- 2007, E.J. Olsen, John C. Hocking, Detroit Noir, page 215:
- He cheups. Why de ass she can't leave me alone?
- 2018, Sylvester Carrington, It's Your Word Against Mine:
- You would have heard Ms. Watson say he was bewitched, cheupsing her mouth in disgust as she said it, without fear of anyone in Roebuck protesting against her shop keeping business, as was recently done against Chick-Fil-A,[sic] when its president voiced his opposition to the gay lifestyle.