yahoo

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈjɑːhuː/
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/ˈjɑːhuː/ · /jəˈhuː/

Definition of yahoo

10 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (derogatory)A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
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noun

  1. (derogatory)A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
  2. A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
    “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, despite Holman's report The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.”
  3. 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; […]”
  4. (informal)An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!
    “But having two beaming Chief Yahoos on the cover is an implied seal of approval.”
    “Instead of driving down the street to meetings, soon Yahoos need merely stroll the walkways that crisscrossed a bright green lawn.”
    “Some Yahoos got filthy rich, but many more lost it all.”

intj

  1. Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
    “"Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"”
  2. Battle cry.

verb

  1. (informal, intransitive, transitive)To give a cry of yahoo.
  2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo.
    “Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!”
    “In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?).”
  3. (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.”
    “I searched, Yahooed, Googled and everything else I could.”
    “We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.”
    “He Googled, Binged, and Yahooed sharks, shark life, shark types, shark history, shark food, and anything else shark-related.”

name

  1. (alt-of, 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.”
    “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.”
    “A person with a Gmail account can send messages to a person with a Yahoo account because email systems are interoperable.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.

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