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Noun: yahoo  'yaa,hoo
  1. A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
    "The city slickers mistakenly assumed the farmer was just a yahoo";
    - yokel, rube [N. Amer, informal], hick [N. Amer, informal], hayseed [N. Amer], bumpkin, chawbacon [archaic]
Interjection: yahoo  'yaa,hoo
Usage: informal
  1. Exclamation of joy or victory
    - hooray, hoorah, hurrah, hurray, whoopee [informal], yippee [informal]
Noun: Yahoo  'yaa,hoo
  1. A widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
    - Yahoo!
     
  2. One of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift

Derived forms: yahoos, Yahoos

Type of: character, fictional character, fictitious character, rustic, search engine

Encyclopedia: Yahoo