yuk

¹

Also yok,
Or yuck

[yuhk]

noun

1. a loud, hearty laugh.

2. a joke evoking such a laugh.

verb (used with or without object)

yukked, yukking 

1. to laugh or joke.

   The audience really yukked it up at the movie.

yuk

²

[yuhk]

interjection

Slang.

1. a variant spelling of yuck.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yuk¹

First recorded in 1935–40; imitative

Origin of yuk²

First recorded in 1950–55; imitative

Example Sentences

On stage, the singer is normally a fireball of intensity, screaming punky anthems like Yuk Foo and commanding the spotlight with magnetic charisma.

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Standout tracks we noted included the dissonant “Yuk Foo” and the sassy hit “Don’t Delete the Kisses.”

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“Yuk it up all you want,” you might be saying, “but we don’t see you proposing a Democratic message that will somehow satisfy both the blue-collar voters who’ve been gravitating away from the party and the liberal, well-educated suburbanites who now constitute its base.”

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That 1368 yuk difference might not seem like much, especially when you see who else made Leno’s Top 10.

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After the delicious love song The Sofa, she poured a bottle of water over her head, shook off the droplets, grabbed a megaphone and screamed out the lyrics to the band's two loudest, punkiest songs, Yuk Foo and Greatest Hits.

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