- plural of Yahoo.
Yahoos
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A “yahoo” is an uncouth or uncivilized person.
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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
However, the Yahoos also show us what humanity is not: something Gulliver fails to recognize.
From Nature ● Sep. 26, 2017
Her closest friends are former Yahoos, including Ms. Heimburger, who married yet another surfer and lives in London.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2016
New mom Mayer juggles work/life issues via a convenience not shared by other Yahoos: an on-site nursery and nanny she pays for herself.
From Time ● Dec. 31, 2013
My master told me, “there were some qualities remarkable in the Yahoos, which he had not observed me to mention, or at least very slightly, in the accounts I had given of humankind.”
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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