Yipe vs Yips - What's the difference?
yipe | yips |
(informal) A nervous condition which prevents a sportsman from playing properly; especially a condition which causes a golfer to miss an easy putt, or a tennis player to serve a double fault.
* 2013 , William Fotheringham, The Guardian , Monday 13 May 2013:
English plurals
(yip)
As an interjection yipe
is used to express surprise, fear, or dismay.As a noun yips is
a nervous condition which prevents a sportsman from playing properly; especially a condition which causes a golfer to miss an easy putt, or a tennis player to serve a double fault.As a verb yips is
third-person singular of yip.yips
English
Noun
(wikipedia yips) (-)- Defining precisely why a professional cyclist might lose his touch on descents is as difficult as explaining a golfer's yips or a striker's sudden inability to find the net. It happens rarely, most famously in the early 1990s; the double world champion Gianni Bugno suffered from it and only rediscovered his "flow" after being made to listen to Mozart to calm his nerves.