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
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
The, Land in Gulliver's Travels, in which the Horse is King and men are vile slaves called Yahoos, 131.
From Comfort Found in Good Old Books by Fitch, George Hamlin
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