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Definition 2024

oops

oops

See also: OOPS

English

Interjection

oops

Acknowledging a minor mistake.
Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.
Used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake.

Oops, I didn't see you there.

Oops... I locked my car keys inside the car.

Synonyms

Translations

acknowledging a minor mistake

Chinese:
Mandarin: 哎呀 (zh) ‎(āiyā, āiyá)
Czech: jejda
Danish: ups, hovsa
Dutch: oeps (nl), oei (nl), ai (nl), amaai (Belgian Dutch expression)
Esperanto: ups
Finnish: ups, oho (fi)
French: oups (fr), houp! (fr)
Georgian: უი ‎(ui), ვაი ‎(vai), უფს ‎(ups)
German: ups (de), huch (de)
Hebrew: אופס (he) ‎(oops)
Hungarian: hoppá

Icelandic: úps, úbbs, æj
Japanese: おっと (ja) ‎(otto), しまった ‎(shimatta), あら ‎(ara), おや (ja) ‎(oya)
Korean: 아차 (ko) ‎(acha)
Malay: oop
Navajo: yíh, wah, waháá
Polish: oj (pl), ups (pl)
Portuguese: opa (pt), ops
Russian: ой (ru) ‎(oj), упс (ru) ‎(ups) (neologism), ох (ru) ‎(ox)
Serbo-Croatian: ups, jao (sh), (slang, from english "****") šit (sh)
Spanish: ops (es)
Swedish: hoppsan (sv)

used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake

Dutch: oeps (nl), oei (nl)
Finnish: ups, oho (fi)
Japanese: おっと (ja) ‎(otto), あら ‎(ara)
Malay: oop

Polish: oj (pl), ups (pl)
Russian: ой (ru) ‎(oj), упс (ru) ‎(ups) (neologism)
Spanish: oh oh

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

poos