Yo vs. Sup — What's the Difference?

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.
Sup➦
A small swallow or mouthful of liquid food; a sip.
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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.
Yo➦
(slang) An expression of surprise or excitement.
Yo, that's crazy, but I don't remember asking.
Sup➦
To take supper.
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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