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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
yips is a noun meaning "nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts)". It carries one recorded sense.
nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts)
“to avoid the yips he changed his style of putting”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for yips come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.