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yo!
- used as a greeting US, 1944
Both Italian-American and black communities lay claim to “yo!”. First recorded in 1944 among Philadelphia’s Italian-Americans and popularised by Sylvester Stallone in the 1976 film Rocky. - BOCCO: Yo! — Nat Hiken, Sergeant Bilko, p. 159, 1957
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, November 1976
- Yo! We don’t score school lunch. — Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, p. 12, 1992
- — Claudio R. Salvucci, The Philadelphia Dialect Dictionary, p. 66, 1996
- MAUREEN: Yo! Yo! This is my bloke I was telling you about. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 47, 2000
- used as an expression of surprise, contempt, dismay, etc
SOUTH AFRICA, 1871 - — Jean Branford, A Dictionary of South African English, 1978
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