yahoo

Noun (1)

yahoo (plural yahoos)

1. (derogatory) A 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...

   Synonyms:

   yokel, lout

2. A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
   • The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.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...

Interjection

IPA/jəˈhuː/

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.

Verb (1)

IPA/jəˈhuː/

yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)

1. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To give a cry of yahoo.

Noun (2) capitalized: Yahoo

Yahoo (plural Yahoos)

1. One 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: […]...

Proper noun capitalized: Yahoo

Yahoo

1. (alternative) Alternative form of Yahoo!.
   • 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...
   • 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...

Noun (3) capitalized: Yahoo

Yahoo (plural Yahoos)

1. (informal) An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!
   • 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

Verb (2) capitalized: Yahoo

Yahoo (third-person singular simple present Yahoos, present participle Yahooing, simple past and past participle Yahooed)

1. (Internet, informal, intransitive, transitive) To search using the Yahoo! search engine.
   • 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
   • I searched, Yahooed, Googled and everything else I could.2008, Frederick Thomas, Buddha's Bones, Buddha's Bones, →ISBN, page 46