yucks

Noun (1)

yuck (uncountable)

1. Something disgusting.
   • I fetched an orange from a basket and peeled it […] “Make sure you peel as much of the yuck off as possible,” she said. “I hate the yuck."2003 December 8, The New Yorker
2. (derogatory, informal) A general insult.
   • Alright, settle down, you yucks!2018 November 11, “Stand by Meg”, in Family Guy, season 17, episode 6

Noun (2)

yuck (plural yucks)

1. The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.
   • Given this insecurity, the creators of “The Simpsons” took an extraordinary risk: they decided not to use a laugh track. On almost all other sitcoms, dialogue was interrupted repeatedly by crescendos of phony guffaws (or by the electronically enhanced laughter of live audiences), creating the...2000 March 13, The New Yorker

Noun (3)

yuck (plural yucks)

1. (US, slang) Synonym of yearling (“a sophomore at West Point military academy”).
   • Amy tells us that her husband, Jim Nelson, is deployed to Afghanistan […] as a nuclear operations officer — a result of graduating from the Naval Postgraduate School in December 2007 with a master's in Applied Physics. I guess I should have been looking for Jim to partner up with for physics help...2008, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly (volume 67, issues 1-4, page 126)

   Synonyms:

   yearling

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