yikes
[ yahyks ]
/ yaɪks /
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interjection
(an exclamation of surprise or alarm.)
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Examples from the Web for yikes
I did a little research and now, I mean, yikes, he's the guy that's okay with letting schools forcibly pin down autistic kids.
And could he—yikes—actually be not just inconvenienced but actually ill?
Everything You Wanted To Know About Bob Costas’s Olympic Pinkeye|Kent Sepkowitz|February 12, 2014|DAILY BEASTYite I yikes, and boo I yikes; and my dear papa be so very angy, when I tells him all about it.'
The Maid of Sker|Richard Doddridge BlackmoreGeo had only gotten half clear of the entrance when he yelled, "Yikes," and then, "Duck!"
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yikes
/ (ˈjaiks) /
interjection
informal an expression of surprise, fear, or alarm
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yikes
exclamation of alarm or surprise, by 1953; perhaps from yoicks, a call in fox-hunting, attested from c.1770. Yike "a fight" is slang attested from 1940, of uncertain connection.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper