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Grammar : Adj, noun, verb
Spell : yoh-yoh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈyoʊ yoʊ



Definition of yo-yo

Origin :
  • 1915, apparently from a language of the Philippines. Registered as a trademark in Vancouver, Canada, in 1932, the year the first craze for them began (subsequent fads 1950s, 1970s, 1998). The toy itself is much older and was earlier known as bandalore (1824). Figurative sense of any "up-and-down movement" is first recorded 1932. Meaning "stupid person" is recorded from 1970. The verb in the figurative sense is attested from 1967.
  • As in mercurial : adj flighty, temperamental
  • As in variable : adj changing, changeable
  • As in retarded : adj limited
  • As in capricious : adj given to sudden behavior change
  • As in fickle : adj vacillating, blowing hot and cold
  • As in dolt : noun stupid person
  • As in shift : verb switch, fluctuate
  • As in sway : verb move back and forth
  • As in vacillate : verb go back and forth
  • As in vary : verb change
  • As in waffle : verb waver
  • As in waver : verb shift back and forth; be indecisive
  • As in alternate : verb take turns, change back and forth
  • As in fluctuate : verb vacillate, change
Example sentences :
  • The ships that raided them were the Enterprise and the Yo-Yo.
  • Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
  • Then the Yo-Yo blew up, very quietly, as things do where there is no air to carry shock-and sound-waves, but very brilliantly.
  • Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
  • That's pretty hard to keep track of, because I was like a yo-yo, back and forth from one parent to the other.
  • Extract from : « Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

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