- 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
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
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
The American Fairy Tale, Fun House Style Of all the disagreeable species of humanlike beings Jonathan Swift invented in “Gulliver’s Travels,” the Yahoos are the worst and most human of all.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2013
Finally, in his loathsome caricature of mankind, as Yahoos, he contrasts them, to their shame, with the beasts, and sets instinct above reason.
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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