yuk

¹

or yuck, yock, yok, yak

[yuhk]Slang.

noun

a loud, hearty laugh.
a joke evoking such a laugh.

verb (used with or without object), yukked, yuk·king.

to laugh or joke: The audience really yukked it up at the movie.

Origin of yuk

¹

imitative

yuk

²

[yuhk]

interjection

(used in repetition to indicate pleasure or amused malice.)

yuk

³

[yuhk]

interjection Slang.

yuck¹.

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Examples from the Web for yuk

Historical Examples of yuk

If it works, we may be able to crack the yuk defenses, get some ships into their system.
Mr. Spaceship
Philip K. Dick
Yucker, yuk′ėr, n. the American flicker or golden-winged woodpecker.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)
Various
All lie dead on the field at Kosovo; all save Yuk Brankovich, whose name be for ever accursed.
Through the Land of the Serb
Mary Edith Durham

Word Origin and History for yuk

"laughter, something evoking laughs," 1964, imitative; see yuck (2).

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