yuk 1 of 2

variants or yuck also yak or yock
slang

yuk

2 of 2

verb

variants or yuck
slang

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of yuk
Noun
Most of the other obvious yuks are flashy and hollow: Of course M3GAN will dance. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025 Certainly, a just-for-yuks take on infidelity, anger and marital resentment may strike many television executives as a risky bet. Alex Williams, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2016
Verb
This year Hart yuks it up on July 12 and Jones does a follow up concert on Aug. 2. Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025 Who has more fun than golfers who yuk it up throughout a four-hour round? Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025 If that week’s offering was pure schlock, my dad and I would yuk it up. Shannon Doyne, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 Seinfeld heads back to Bay Area Jerry Seinfeld is ready to yuk it up with Bay Area fans. Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024 Jerry Seinfeld is ready to yuk it up with Bay Area fans. Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024 Kevin Hart yuks it up with Laugh Out Loud Radio, a collection of Hart’s specials, shows, and dialogues. PCMAG, 14 Aug. 2024 Each person gets a chance to stand on one side of a plastic barrier while Yankovic stands on the other and tour photographer Kamal Asar takes a picture of them pretending to organically yuk it up together. Alex Pappademas, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022 The Monocle isn’t a culinary utopia where Republicans and Democrats yuk it up together, engaging in the kind of cross-aisle socializing whose demise misty-eyed old-timers lament. Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yuk
Noun
  • She was raised in a society—a West Indian society—that did not put much of a premium on women’s bodies, where any kind of intimacy was a joke.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • And yet the world is too driven by algorithms, too fragmented in its tastes, to ever be on the same page again and get the same jokes.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Nintendo wasn't kidding about bricking the Switch 2 if hacking or piracy is detected.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • Surely this step won’t be controversial at all… (kidding).
    Neil Paine, New York Times, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Friday’s Resident Alien had it all: uproarious laughs, romance, heartbreak and a whole lot of vomit.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 28 June 2025
  • And in a company which faithfully recreates stiff 18th-century acting conventions, McCormack’s unapologetically sassy Semira was a welcome change of pace, drawing the afternoon’s biggest laughs.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025

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“Yuk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yuk. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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