yaa-boo

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Interjection[edit]

yaa-boo

  1. Alternative form of yah boo
    • 1982, Hugh Stephenson, Claret and chips: the rise of the SDP, page 10:
      The SDP wanted a different political image from that portrayed in the BBC's Today in Parliament /Yesterday in Parliament reports — of juvenile yaa-boo exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons.
    • 1999, Jeff Raglus, Big Funky Action, page 220:
      No! we hug each other, swooning and falling about with the ecstatically comforting knowledge that — yes! it's true! — those feminists have just gone too far. That we are, what we are! Men! Real Men! Yaa-boo!
    • 2002, Theatre Record - Volume 22, Issues 19-26, page 1226:
      This is yaa-boo, in-yer-face, up-yours theatre, vaguely but crudely feminist; a Punch and Judy show with drab dialogue of naff lower-middle-class cliches. Ghastly sex scene, about as erotic as playing dominoes.