Meaning of Yuck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of yearling (“a sophomore at West Point military academy”).
   US, slang
2. Something disgusting.
   uncountable
3. The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.
4. A general insult.
   derogatory, informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I fetched an orange from a basket and peeled it […] “Make sure you peel as much of the yuck off as possible,” she said. “I hate the yuck."”

“Alright, settle down, you yucks!”

“Given this insecurity, the creators of “The Simpsons” took an extraordinary risk: they decided not to use a laugh track. On almost all other sitcoms, dialogue was interrupted repeatedly by crescendos of phony guffaws (or by the electronically enhanced laughter of live audiences), creating the unreal ebb and flow of sitcom conversation, in which a typical character’s initial reaction to an ostensibly humorous remark could only be to smile archly or look around while waiting for the yucks to die down.”

“Amy tells us that her husband, Jim Nelson, is deployed to Afghanistan […] as a nuclear operations officer — a result of graduating from the Naval Postgraduate School in December 2007 with a master's in Applied Physics. I guess I should have been looking for Jim to partner up with for physics help as a Yuck!”

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