yahoos

Noun

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...

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