| 释义 |
yo-yo
noun- a fool US
- I’ll bet you’re a real yo-yo. — Rebel Without a Cause, 1955
- What would I do with a yo-yo like him all Saturday evening? — Frederick Kohner, The Affairs of Gidget, p. 54, 1963
- [H]e gets a phone call from some yo-yo named Liddy, whom he barely knows, saying that four Cubans he’s never even met have just been caught in the act[.] — Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt, p. 390, 1979
- Jimmy, we got to straighten this yo-yo out. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 180, 1979
- This yoyo must eat plant food for breakfast cereal; it was the only explanation for the shiteating grin. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 194, 1990
- a bisexual US, 1986
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 9, Fall 1986
- a hot rod enthusiast who races illegally US, 1956
- — American Speech, p. 305, December 1956: “Hot-rodders’ jargon again”
- in air combat, a steep climb and dive in an attempt to gain a more favourable position US
- The other bandit was doing a high yo-yo, a vertical roller-coaster maneuver, three miles behind Fairly, trying to kill his high overtake speed and fall in behind the first bandit by trading forward momentum for altitude. — Richard Herman, The Warbirds, p. 57, 1989
- One tactic was the “High-speed Yo-Yo,”–the ball on a string to which Smith referred. — Robert K. Wilcox, Scream of Eagles, p. 174, 1990
▶ up and down like a yo-yo
used of a person whose moods alternate rapidly between optimism and despair UK, 1984 |