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Y.O.L.O.

US/ˈjoʊ.loʊ/

Y.O.L.O. is the alternative form of YOLO.

Meaning of YOLO

Verb

YOLO (third-person singular simple present YOLOs, present participle YOLOing, simple past and past participle YOLOed)

  1. To make the most of the present moment.
    • Dario Amodei […] has cautioned that if the real numbers go off course, big spenders could face bankruptcy as a result of “Yolo-ing” on capital expenditure, a reference to some of his peers' you-only-live-once exuberance.2026 March 28, John Foley, quoting Dario Amodei, “Can Big Tech profit from AI spree?”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7

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Questions about Y.O.L.O.

What is Y.O.L.O. the alternative form of?
Y.O.L.O. is the alternative form of YOLO.
How do you pronounce Y.O.L.O.?
Y.O.L.O. is pronounced /ˈjoʊ.loʊ/ (US).

Words near Y.O.L.O. in the dictionary

  1. y-words
  2. Y. O. B.
  3. Y. T.
  4. y.o.
  5. Y.O.B.
  6. Y.O.L.O.
  7. Y.T.
  8. Y/D
  9. y/n
  10. y/o
  11. y/y

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Y.O.L.O. (page history and authors); YOLO (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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