Meaning & use
Yahoo
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A crude, boorish, or uncultivated person.
See it in a sentence
He acted like a total yahoo at the wedding, shouting over the toasts.
The critics dismissed the film's antagonist as little more than a yahoo with a gun.
A note on using this word
The word originates from the brutish, degraded humanoid race in Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' (1726) and later became a general term of contempt; it is unrelated in origin to the technology company of the same name.
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Another way to use it
2. interjection
An exclamation of joy or excitement.
Yahoo! We won the championship!
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