- 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
The Yahoos amplify all of humanity's worst traits, and through them Swift challenges the anthropocentric view of the world in a way that seems very modern.
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
They should, in reforming, take an easy step upward, and, by contemplating the good points of Swift's Yahoos, somewhat elevate their opinion of the species which they so graciously ornament!
From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
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