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発音

• enPR: o͞ops, o͝ops, IPA: /uːps/, /ʊps/
• 韻: -uːps, -ʊps

間投詞

oops

1. (informal) Used to acknowledge a small mistake or accident.

   Synonyms: oopsy, uh-oh, whoops, whoops-a-daisy

   Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.

   • 2000, Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, “Oops!… I Did It Again”, in Oops!… I Did It Again, performed by Britney Spears:

     Oops, I did it again / I played with your heart, got lost in the game

2. (informal) Used to indicate mild surprise or shock.

   Synonym: oop

派生語

• oops baby
• oopsie
• oopsortunity

名詞

oops (plural oopses or oops)

1. A minor mistake or unforeseen difficulty.
   • 2011, Housetraining, →ISBN, page 14:

     It's an oops, but one that's your fault, not your puppy's.

   • 2013, Bruce Tucker, Leadership at the Crossroads, →ISBN:

     Every plan and every activity has an “oops.” Oops, we forgot to..., oops, who was supposed to do that? We all have experienced “oopses”.

   • 2014, Al Rennie, Clearwater Oops!, →ISBN:

     Isn't she the same woman who works at Wings that you and Billy almost got arrested for helping her with her last little oops?

   • 2015, Dawn Klehr, If You Wrong Us, →ISBN:

     My parents had moved to this house, which sat on the border of Corktown and Mexicantown, from their tiny apartment in Ann Arbor—once they found out that their little oops was actually two little oops.

動詞

oops (third-person singular simple present oopses, present participle oopsing, simple past and past participle oopsed)

1. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a mistake; to blunder.

アナグラム

• POOs, SOPO, poos, soop