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• plural of Yahoo.

Yahoos

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1. The crude, dirty “brutes” of the land of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. The Yahoos are irrational people and represent the worst side of humanity. By contrast, the wise and gentle Houyhnhnms, their masters, are rational horses and represent humanity at its best.

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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

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

And in all cases, he shall preside at and conduct the Grand Council of Yahoos.

From Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by Lester, J. C.