yoicks

American  

[yoiks] / yɔɪks /

interjection

1. Fox Hunting. (used as a cry by the huntsman to encourage the hounds.)

2. (used as a cry of high spirits or encouragement.)

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yoicks British  

/ jɔɪks, haɪk /

interjection

1. a cry used by huntsmen to urge on the hounds to the fox

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Etymology

Origin of yoicks

First recorded in 1765–75; compare earlier hoick(s) < ?

Example Sentences

Though Congress needed no encouraging yoicks, the press joined in with rousing view halloos.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over tilled hill and manicured dale they bounded with tally-hos, yoicks and view halloos, making life miserable not only for the fox, but for stolid farmers and their livestock.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a Rugby scrum in the refectory, and hunting-men cried the "View halloo!" and shouted "Yoicks! yoicks!"

From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip

Don't let him slip through your fingers for a day; hunt him from lodging to lodging, from tavern to tavern, into jail and out of jail—tantivy, yoicks, hark-forward!

From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

“Yoicks, yoicks, yoicks, gone away,” shouted several, uproariously.

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville