oops

Definition of oops in English English dictionary: Used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
I just ran over a squirrel. 'Oops!''.; Acknowledging a minor mistake
Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.; Internal kernel error; feelings You say `oops' to indicate that there has been a slight accident or mistake, or to apologize to someone for it. Today they're saying, `Oops, we made a mistake.'. said when someone falls or makes a small mistake (Natural sound); An oops is generated on some kernel errors This may be due to kernel bugs or faulty hardware (especially bad RAM) Often the kernel can continue to operate mostly correctly after an oops More serious or potentially dangerous errors can cause a kernel panic (the O/S freezes) This is sometimes done to protect a filesystem from incurring further harm An oops report will appear in the kernel logs, but is only useful to developers after decoding it with ksymoops (see Documentation/oops-tracing txt) Note also that klogd can corrupt oops reports by incorrectly decoding it automatically It is recommended to pass the -x option to klogd on startup to prevent this from happening The plural form is oopsen; {ü} Whoops!; Oh No! (cry of concern or regret, i.e. when something happens accidentally); Opponents' On Base Plus Slugging = OOBP + OSLG
oops-a-daisy: said when a child falls (upsy-daisy (19-21 centuries), from up-a-day (18-19 centuries))
Oops.: whoops
alley oops: plural form of alley oop
whoops: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whoop
whoops: plural form of whoop
whoops: A nickname for the Washington Public Power Supply System, which in the 1970s raised billions of dollars through municipal bond offerings, the projects that never materialized WPPSS defaulted on the payments to bondholders
whoops: third-person singular of whoop
whoops: {ü} oops! (cry of surprise)
whoops: Same as oops
whoops: An exclamation that translates roughly into "get the mop"
whoops: plural of whoop
whoops: What you say when you lose the ball in your backswing
whoops: An exclamation that translates roughly into "get a sponge
whoops: feelings You say `whoops' to indicate that there has been a slight accident or mistake, or to apologize to someone for it. Whoops, that was a mistake Whoops, it's past 11, I'd better be off home. = oops
whoops: A nickname for the Washington public power supply system which in the 1970s raised billions of dollars through municipal bond offerings, but because of bad management, the projects which the offerings were to finance did not materialize and Whoops defaulted on the payments to bondholders

oops

Turkish pronunciation

ups

Synonyms

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

Pronunciation

/ˈo͞ops/ /ˈuːps/

Etymology

[ (w)u(&)ps ] (interjection.) 1933. A presumably 'natural' exclamation, only attested since 1933, possibly altered to (or from) whoops (attested since 1933)