Yahoos
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A “yahoo” is an uncouth or uncivilized person.
Example Sentences
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You’re doing all the right stuff by yourself, and you’re among professionals, medical professionals, not Yahoos, and you can still have someone else make a mistake and your life is gone.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
Their land is plagued by feral animals known as the Yahoos — which, Gulliver is shocked to learn, have human physical form beneath their fur.
From Nature • Sep. 26, 2017
She maintained sorority discipline when the Yahoos from CNN were around.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016
Those benefits are really only a trademark of the big guys—the Facebooks, Apples, Googles and Yahoos of Silicon Valley.
From Time • Aug. 5, 2015
I hear some of our sea Yahoos find fault with my sea-language, as not proper in many parts, nor now in use.
From Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan
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