yuk

[ yuhk ]

/ yʌk /

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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.

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Also yok, yock

[yok], /yɒk/, yak

[yak] /yæk/ .

Origin of yuk

First recorded in 1935–40; imitative

yuk²

[ yuhk ]

/ yʌk /

interjection Slang.

a variant spelling of yuck.

First recorded in 1950–55; imitative

His lead role in developing a hydrogel surgical adhesive in Zhao’s lab earned Yuk the 2020 graduate award in the Collegiate Inventors Competition sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Inventing soft things to solve hard problems|Mark Roth|February 23, 2022|MIT Technology Review
The headline “Yuk of the Draw” was sent in by both Jesse Frankovich and Chris Doyle.
Style Invitational Week 1429: Yuk of the draw — winning cartoon captions|Pat Myers|March 25, 2021|Washington Post
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

If it works, we may be able to crack the yuk defenses, get some ships into their system.
Mr. Spaceship|Philip K. Dick
There we had to face 75° below zero, but then Yuk-Takh adjoins Verkhoyansk, the coldest place in the world.
From Paris to New York by Land|Harry de Windt