Yahoo
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.
Noun[edit]
Yahoo (plural Yahoos)
- (literature) One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, that inhabit the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.
Etymology 2[edit]
From the company name.
Noun[edit]
Yahoo (plural Yahoos)
- (informal) An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!.
- 1996, Newsweek (volume 127)
- But having two beaming Chief Yahoos on the cover is an implied seal of approval.
- 2002, Karen Angel, Inside Yahoo!: reinvention and the road ahead
- Instead of driving down the street to meetings, soon Yahoos need merely stroll the walkways that crisscrossed a bright green lawn.
- 2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson: how a cartoon masterpiece defined a generation
- Some Yahoos got filthy rich, but many more lost it all.
- 1996, Newsweek (volume 127)
