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yahoo
1[ yah-hoo ]
interjection
- (an exclamation used to express joy, excitement, etc.)
Yahoo
2[ yah-hoo, yey-, yah-hoo ]
noun
- (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels ) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
- (lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
- (lowercase) a coarse or brutish person.
yahoo
/ əˈː /
noun
- a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person
Derived Forms
- ⲹˈǴǾ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ⲹhǴ· noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of yahoo1
Origin of yahoo2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of yahoo1
Example Sentences
Sextortion has become big business in Nigeria involving thousands of young men nicknamed “yahoo boys”.
They see their voters as a bunch of yahoos who are stupid enough to believe their lies.
Perhaps he goes too far in stacking the deck: Though some of Wolff’s antagonists, especially the girl’s yahoo of a father, make clearly antisemitic remarks, Wolff herself is almost worse.
It's not clear even to the yahoos who worship Trump how rioting at a courthouse would do much to derail the march of justice.
Regular soldiers looked down on General Hamdan and his paramilitaries as a motley crew — “a bunch of jumped-up yahoos from the sticks, not proper military men,” as one Western ambassador put it.
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