Yo vs. Sup — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Yo and Sup
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Definitions
Yo
Yo is a slang interjection, commonly associated with North American English. It was popularized by the Italian-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1940s.Although often used as a greeting and often deployed at the beginning of a sentence, yo may also come at the end of a sentence and may be used for emphasis or to direct focus onto a particular individual or group or to gain the attention of another individual or group.
Sup
To eat or drink (something) or engage in eating or drinking by taking small swallows or mouthfuls
Supped the hot soup.
Supped away daintily.
Yo
Used as a greeting or to attract someone's attention.
Sup
To eat an evening meal; have supper.
Yo
Used to express emphasis
Today's my birthday, yo.
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Sup
A small swallow or mouthful of liquid food; a sip.
Yo
(slang) A greeting similar to hi.
Yo Paulie! How's it going?
Sup
Used as an informal greeting.
Yo
(slang) An interjection similar to hey.
Yo, check this out!
Check this out, yo!
Sup
To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
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Yo
(slang) An expression of surprise or excitement.
Yo, that's crazy, but I don't remember asking.
Sup
To take supper.
Yo
(military slang) Present! Here!
Sergeant: Smith?
Private Smith: Yo!
Private Smith: Yo!
Sup
A sip; a small amount of food or drink.
Yo
Emphatic conclusion to a statement.
Sup
(informal) Superintendent.
Yo
(colloquial) your
Yo sandwich has only bacon in it. Want some ketchup on that?
Sup
(mathematics) Supremum, upper limit.
Yo
(Baltimore) third-person singular, familiar
Yo was tuckin' in his shirt! ([http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/82/3/262 Stotko and Troyer 2007])
Sup
Supplement.
Yo
The letter Ё, ё.
Sup
(Cambridge University slang) A supervision.
Yo
Obsolete form of yue, a traditional Chinese unit of volume.
Sup
(slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)
— Sup?
— Not much.
— Not much.
Sup
(physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.
Sup
To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.
There I'll supBalm and nectar in my cup.
Sup
To eat the evening meal; to take supper.
I do entreat that we may sup together.
Sup
To treat with supper.
Sup them well and look unto them all.
Sup
A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.
Tom Thumb had got a little sup.
Sup
A small amount of liquid food;
A sup of ale
Sup
Take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon