Meaning of Yahoo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
   derogatory
2. One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.
3. An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!
   informal
4. A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

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Examples

“1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN), who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.”

“I therefore often begged his Favour to let me go among the Herds of Yahoos in the Neighbourhood, to which he always very graciouſly conſented, being perfectly convinced, that the Hatred I bore thoſe Brutes, would never ſuffer me to be corrupted by them; […]”

“That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day.”

“You have every right to be skeptical as another big company — this time it’s Yahoo — says you can claim some cash to make amends for a massive data breach.”

“A person with a Gmail account can send messages to a person with a Yahoo account because email systems are interoperable.”

“But having two beaming Chief Yahoos on the cover is an implied seal of approval.”

“Instead of driving down the street to meetings, soon Yahoos need merely stroll the walkways that crisscrossed a bright green lawn.”

“Some Yahoos got filthy rich, but many more lost it all.”

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