Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To urge or drive by the cry of “Yoicks.”
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hmm? and I wanted to leap through the screen and bat all of them over the head, because maybe it doesn't feel like a Depression if you're a rich tool living in DC, rich tool, but come live as a middle class or working class yoick here in AR, tool, or some worse off place in the country Oddly, I'm hearing there are worse off places that Arkansas right now!
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An utterance typical of the red brick (in Manhattan, "white brick") yoick Brits that S.I. Newhouse Jr. has imported by the boxcar, for reasons that escape this observer.
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The little stops view him as he passes, and far and near the air resounds with shrill "yoick!" and "tally-ho!"
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893
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"yoick!" or "hark-a-way!" was relishing his chase with the loudest of them.
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