yuk

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Choy So-yuk, a senior DAB official, said: "The whole Olympics has raised Hong Kong people's sense of being part of China and their sense of pride in being Chinese."

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  1. noun An exuberant laugh.
  2. noun One, such as a joke, that causes such a laugh.
  3. transitive and intransitive verb To joke or laugh exuberantly: a student who yukked it up in class.
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  • Yuk, yuk, yuk. —  Sirena Huang dazzles on violin
  • It was still the first time I'd talked to a girl other than my sister--yuk! —  F ;SF - vol 093 issue 03 - September 1997
  • The last couple of times she'd been to bed with anyone, it had been sort of sad, the absolutely last time a month ago she'd been so miserably blitzed beforehand that she woke up next to a guy , which had meant not only serious yuk-euuww! —  Map.html
  • My hair is actually black, but he likes the idea of claiming he's got a Red Ferrari at the office, yuk, yuk. —  AHMM,April2008
  • That fact alone is sufficient enough to qualify us as "yuk-yuk" central. —  Latest Articles
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