Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to call someone at a distance or to gain someone's attention.
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- interjection Used to
call to someone at a distance or to gain someone'sattention .
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Examples
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I feel I should somehow stick my hand up and say, yoo-hoo, me again, Litlove talking.
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Then a neighbour would call out Hi, yoo-hoo, anyone there? and my partner would suddenly abandon her scowl and cheerily discuss the latest episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
What's Going On Mark Steel 2009
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Message to all Americans: yoo-hoo, the accent is on the FIRST syllable.
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Well-said and another true meaningful yoo-hoo for your 'lil light Lulu.
lulu lumens 2007
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Yeah, those hot ''Summers'' on master's plantations, where thousands of newborns and children of slaves died of heat exhaustion and starvation, while master's babies were busy sucking on some yoo-hoo milk from the black slave girls who lactated.
Boondocks: Dr. King Would Blast Niggers, Relocate to Canada. Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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May 26th, 2006 at 3:19 pm p.s. yoo-hoo, darkblack!
Firedoglake » Ned Lamont Deserves Enthusiastic GLBT Support 2006
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One, all white babies during slavery sucked on black slave breasts and guzzled down gallons of ''yoo-hoo'' milk because their white momma didn't have the life-supporting milk that black mothers have that babies needed to have healthy physical and mental bodies.
Charlie Winburn Is A Fool Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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If anyone rang the doorbell Meema sang yoo-hoo, and after dinner Peepa gave us each a dollar, and we drove home on the freeway, sleeping in the way-back, and even with my eyes closed I recognized the off-ramp and the turns and hills and streetlights as we approached our house, and I would keep them closed so Dad would carry me inside to bed.
The Making of Toro Mark Sundeen 2003
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If anyone rang the doorbell Meema sang yoo-hoo, and after dinner Peepa gave us each a dollar, and we drove home on the freeway, sleeping in the way-back, and even with my eyes closed I recognized the off-ramp and the turns and hills and streetlights as we approached our house, and I would keep them closed so Dad would carry me inside to bed.
The Making of Toro Mark Sundeen 2003
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Lynn followed him to the window and passed her hand in front of his eyes, saying "yoo-hoo".
Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001
bilby commented on the word yoo-hoo
*waves arms*
July 20, 2008