Yips
4 lettersnounmoderateUpdated June 2026
Definition
A condition of acute nervous anxiety or involuntary muscle tension that causes athletes, particularly golfers, to make uncharacteristic errors on simple tasks.
“He had a bad case of the yips and missed three putts he would normally hole with ease.”
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Y-I-P-S, four distinct letters, P between two vowel-adjacent positions is a useful combination to test
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Worth 9 points, P scores 3, YIP takes an S hook and is accepted in most standard dictionaries
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