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1. yogaA devotee or adherent of yoga.First known use 17th c.

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   To this day, yogins find that these disciplines, which have measurable physical and neurological effects, evoke a sense of calm, harmony and equanimity that is comparable to the effect of music.

   2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 30

   There is a special healthy menu, and the yogis can all eat together if they choose, but there's none of the birdseed-and-bulgur-wheat diet of a typical retreat.

   2012 March 30, Lisa Allardice, The Guardian

   It's a yogi trick of some sort.

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1. informaltransitiveTo turn (someone) into a yogi; to lead into practicing yoga.

   He had followed Larry faithfully for two days, getting yelled at and grieved over and yogied into a pretzel and fucked over by all sorts of weirdoes who seemed to find him a nice object to act on.

   2015, Luke Rhinehart, The Search for the Dice Man, →ISBN, page 192

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   You do not even need to be psychoanalyzed, Rolfed, estered, altered, gelded, neutered, spayed, fixed, Mooned, acupunctured, meditated, Zenned, massaged, Cayced, yogied, New Aged, astrocharted, holisticized, computerized, megatrended, therapized, androgynized, evangelized, converted, or even, last and least, to be reborn.

   1954, Edward Abbey, Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader, page xiv

   I meet hundreds of people each year who have been New Thoughted, Mind Scienced, Eckankared, Rosicrucianed, l Amed, White Brotherhooded, Scientologied and, yes, even yogied — to the point of mental numbness.

   1971, Roy Eugene Davis, Darshan: the vision of light, page 190

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1. USthru-hiker slangTo persuade someone to give you food or other favors without actually begging.

   Ready to do some hiking now that we are through yogi-ing? I asked, grinning at Map Man. The hikers looked up at me quizzically, but Map Man knew yogi-ing meant the good natured way thru-hikers ask for food without actually begging.

   1999, Ellen Wolfe, Walking the dream, →ISBN, page 138

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   Late in the afternoon, I came to a shady spot where there was a picnic table—a rare luxury on the trail. As I approached, I saw that there was a peach on top of the table and beneath it a note. Cheryl! We yogied this from day hikers for you. Enjoy! Sam and Helen

   2012, Cheryl Strayed, Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, →ISBN

   You can also yogi food from other hikers and tourists. The yogi cannot realistically be counted upon as a primary resupply strategy, but it's reliable for netting a few extra calories during summer months when traveling through popular parks, especially on weekends.

   2013, Dan Feldman, Long-Distance Hiking, →ISBN, page 96

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of yogi.

   In this picture he is performing his famous Yogi trick of swallowing a package of needles and some thread and extracting the needles threaded.

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   I garaged the car and went to Aunt Dahlia's sanctum to ascertain whether she had cooled off at all since I had left her, for I was still anxious about that blood pressure of hers. One doesn't want aunts going up in a sheet of flame all over the place. She wasn't there, having, I learned later, withdrawn to her room to bathe her temples with eau de Cologne and do Yogi deep-breathing, […]

   1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

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1. Alternative letter-case form of yogi.

   Whoever has not abandoned desire for fruits of action and still have self-centered objectives can never become a Yogi or a practitioner of spiritual communion through work.