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yahoo
noun- an unrefined, loutish, uncultured person UK, 1726
An imaginary race of brutes created by Swift in Gulliver’s Travels. - What the hell is wrong with a bunch of yahoos that’ll stand around for hours on account of a hope like that? — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 343, 1949
- And it’s a dead heat which–Washington or Los Angeles–has more yahoos from dull places. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 3, 1951
- [T]he walk was faced with a camp-out among the yahoos or perhaps a forced march throughout the night to reach another country. — Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory, p. 245, 1975
- You know how long that took? I’m the only thing those Jamaican yahoos had going for ‘em and I get canned. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 125, 1985
- Obviously the yahoos were more curious than afraid of lethal reptiles. — Carl Hiaasen, Native Tongue, p. 306, 1991
- crack cocaine US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
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