YAHOO

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational Internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages."

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Yahoo

A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

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yahoo

Noun

  1. A rough, coarse, or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
  2. A loud boisterous person.
  3. A derogatory term for a white person from the Confederate South (i.e., United States).
  4. A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
    1835: The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit. — James Holman, Travels, 1835 (quoted by Malcolm Smith, above)
    1985: Yahoos in the Bahamas — title of paper by Michael Raynal, Cryptozoology, volume 4, 1985

Interjection

  1. An exclamation of joy.
  2. A battle cry.


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