plural yahoos
1
capitalized
: a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of humans
2
: a boorish, crass, or stupid person
ya·hoo
yä-ˈhü
: yippee
—used to express exuberant delight or triumph
… her usually stoic grandfather shouted: "Yahoo! Way to go!"—Richard Sandomir
"I'll be out there surfing—Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday," he [actor/surfer Bruce Brown] says. "It makes you feel like a kid. You catch a good wave, and it makes you want to yell, 'Yahoo!'"—Mark Goodman
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