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A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.derogatory
- Triple Threat Triad? I beat up some of those yahoos when I got into town.
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A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
- 1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN), who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report The natives are greatl
yahoo
jә'hu:7 senses · 66 ms
Level C2
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Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
- "Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"
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Battle cry.
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To give a cry of yahoo.informalintransitivetransitive
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Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo.alt-of
- Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!
- In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?).