/ˈjɑːhuː/
OriginFrom Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.
- 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, despit”
- 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 B”
- informalAn 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.”
- An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
“"Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"”
- A battle cry.
- informal, intransitive, transitiveTo give a cry of yahoo.
- alt-ofAlternative 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 ?).”
- Internet, informal, intransitive, transitiveTo 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.”
Formsyahoos(plural) · yahoos(present, singular, third-person) · yahooing(participle, present) · yahooed(participle, past) · yahooed(past) · Yahoos(plural) · Yahoos(present, singular, third-person) · Yahooing(participle, present) · Yahooed(participle, past) · Yahooed(past)
Source: Wiktionary