yahoo

plural yahoos

1. derogatoryA rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.

   Triple Threat Triad? I beat up some of those yahoos when I got into town.

   2012 April 21, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, “The Revelation” (7:01 from the start), in Joaquim Dos Santos, Ki Hyun Ryu, directors, The Legend of Korra, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Korra (Janet Varney)

   Synonyms: yokel, lout

2. biologyA humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

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   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.

1. Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.

   "Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"

   1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521

   Synonyms: yay

2. Battle cry.

present singular third person yahoos · participle present yahooing · participle past yahooed · past yahooed

1. informalintransitivetransitiveTo give a cry of yahoo.

present singular third person yahoos · participle present yahooing · participle past yahooed · past yahooed

1. Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo.

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

   2007, Tell

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

   2017, Rajendra Pillai, Unearthed: Discover Life as God's Masterpiece, New Hope Publishers, →ISBN

plural Yahoos

1. fictionOne of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.

   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 Brutes, would never ſuffer me to be corrupted by them; […]

   1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Relates Several Particulars of the Yahoos. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), pages 271–272

1. alternativeAlternative form of Yahoo!.

   A person with a Gmail account can send messages to a person with a Yahoo account because email systems are interoperable.

   2022 October 13, Binyamin Appelbaum, “It Shouldn’t Matter So Much Whether Elon Musk Buys Twitter”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2022

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   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.

   2013 December 11, Megan Garber, quoting Marissa Mayer, “Is ‘Delightful’ the New ‘Cool’?”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2013

   You have every right to be skeptical as another big company — this time it’s Yahoo — says you can claim some cash to make amends for a massive data breach.

   2019 October 15, David Lazarus, “Column: Yahoo offers data breach victims up to $358 each in settlement. But don’t bank on it”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2019

plural Yahoos

1. informalAn employee of the Internet company Yahoo!

   Some Yahoos got filthy rich, but many more lost it all.

   2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson: how a cartoon masterpiece defined a generation

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   But having two beaming Chief Yahoos on the cover is an implied seal of approval.

   1996, Newsweek, volume 127

   Instead of driving down the street to meetings, soon Yahoos need merely stroll the walkways that crisscrossed a bright green lawn.

   2002, Karen Angel, Inside Yahoo!: reinvention and the road ahead

present singular third person Yahoos · participle present Yahooing · participle past Yahooed · past Yahooed

1. InternetinformalintransitivetransitiveTo search using the Yahoo! search engine.

   I searched, Yahooed, Googled and everything else I could.

   2008, Frederick Thomas, Buddha's Bones, Buddha's Bones, →ISBN, page 46

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   I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.

   2007, Linda O. Johnston, The Fright of the Iguana, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 29

   We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.

   2008 July 16, David Gratzer, “Statement of David Gratzer, M.D., Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research”, in Getting Better Value in Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on the Budget House of Representatives; […] (Serial No. 110–37), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 23

   He Googled, Binged, and Yahooed sharks, shark life, shark types, shark history, shark food, and anything else shark-related.

   2014, Ellen J. Prager, “Behind the Jungle Wall”, in The Shark Whisperer, Minneapolis, Minn.: Scarletta Junior Readers, →ISBN, page 12