yahoo

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/ˈjɑːhuː/

noun 4verb 3intj 2name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, cluttered, personal, selected, self-righteous, shut

I deleted all those yahoo emails cluttering up my inbox this morning.

VERB + YAHOO

come, create, don't, hate, trust, use, uses, yelled

I don't trust Yahoo anymore since they had that massive security breach.

YAHOO + NOUN

browse, communications, day, id, internet, ratings

I checked my Yahoo mail every morning before starting work.

PREP.

The crowd let out a yahoo on the field when their team scored the winning goal.

ADV.

finally

Finally, she saw her flight was boarding and shouted yahoo in relief.

Definitions

noun

A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.

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 greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.

intj

An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.

"Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"

A battle cry.

verb

To give a cry of yahoo.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a person who is not very intelligent or interested in cultur

yokel
rube
hick
hayseed
bumpkin
chawbacon

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Wiktionary

"Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"

Wiktionary

Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!

Wiktionary

In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?).

Wiktionary

I therefore often begged his Favour to let me go among the Herds of Yahoos in the Neighbourhood, to which he always very graciouſly conſented, being perfectly convinced, that the Hatred I bore thoſe B

Wiktionary

That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day.

Wiktionary

Usage Notes

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In some senses, yahoo is marked as derogatory, informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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