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* You find yourself in what is known as a yo-yo diet system where you are constantly losing weight quickly and gaining it all back.

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  1. interjection Slang Used as a greeting or to attract someone's attention.

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  • It bounced back like a yo-yo, returning to his hand. —  Xone of Contention
  • But -- yo, yo, yo, dawg -- it wouldn't really be fair to judge Randy Jackson if we didn't point out that his contestant evaluations are pretty elegiac, too, at least when directly transcribed into verse form. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • * You find yourself in what is known as a yo-yo diet system where you are constantly losing weight quickly and gaining it all back. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Axel is a robot that works like a yo-yo, reeling out a tether and pulling it back in as it rolls down and up steep terrain. —  Cosmic Log
  • With the stock market acting like a yo-yo, investments having been drifting toward Municipal Bonds, which have always been seen as quite secure. —  GenealogyBlog
 

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