Transcription
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- [yoh yoh]
- /yoʊ yoʊ/
- /ˈjəʊ ˈjəʊ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [yoh yoh]
- /yoʊ yoʊ/
Definitions of yo-yo word
- noun plural yo-yo a spoollike toy consisting of two thick wooden, plastic, or metal disks connected by a dowel pin in the center to which a string is attached, one end being looped around the player's finger so that the toy can be spun out and reeled in by wrist motion. 1
- noun plural yo-yo something that fluctuates or moves up and down, especially suddenly or repeatedly. 1
- noun plural yo-yo Slang. a stupid, foolish, or incompetent person. 1
- adjective yo-yo Informal. moving up and down or back and forth; fluctuating; vacillating: yo-yo prices; a yo-yo foreign policy. 1
- verb without object yo-yo Informal. to move up and down or back and forth; fluctuate or vacillate: Mortgage rates are still yo-yoing. 1
- verb with object yo-yo Informal. to cause to yo-yo. 1
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Parts of speech for Yo-yo
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adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
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exclamation
yo-yo popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 50% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
Synonyms for yo-yo
noun yo-yo
- airhead — If you describe someone, especially a young woman, as an airhead, you are critical of them because you think they are not at all clever and are interested only in unimportant things.
- dodo — any of several clumsy, flightless, extinct birds of the genera Raphus and Pezophaps, related to pigeons but about the size of a turkey, formerly inhabiting the islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodriguez.
- dolt — a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- dork — Slang. a silly, out-of-touch person who tends to look odd or behave ridiculously around others; a social misfit: If you make me wear that, I’ll look like a total dork! Synonyms: jerk, schmo; nerd, geek.
- dumdum — a silly, stupid person.
verb yo-yo
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- bottom out — If a trend such as a fall in prices bottoms out, it stops getting worse or decreasing, and remains at a particular level or amount.
- change one's mind — to alter one's decision or opinion
- come and go — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- dithering — a trembling; vibration.
adj yo-yo
- birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- changeful — often changing; inconstant; variable
- dummiest — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
- fickle — Changing frequently, esp. as regards one's loyalties, interests, or affection.
adjective yo-yo
- dumbbell — a gymnastic apparatus consisting of two wooden or metal balls connected by a short bar serving as a handle, used as a weight for exercising.
- dumbo — a stupid person: a class full of dumbos.
- humorsome — Alternative form of humoursome.
- numbskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
- quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
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