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Interjection: yo  yow
Usage: informal
  1. Used as a greeting
    - aloha [US, informal], g'day [Austral, informal], greetings, hi [informal], hello, hiya [informal], hallo, hullo, hey [informal], howdy [informal], howzit [S.Africa, informal], gidday [NZ, informal], wotcha [Brit, informal], wotcher [Brit, informal]
Pronoun: yo  yow
Usage: non-standard
  1. (African American Vernacular English) you
    "Yo, what's up?"
     
  2. [US, non-standard, dialect] (Maryland) informal third-person singular pronoun; he, she, him, her
    "Yo is going to the store"

Encyclopedia: Yo, Yogi!