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Ya•hoo

Pronunciation: (yä'hOO, yā'-, yä-hOO'), [key]
—n.,
—pl. -hoos.
1. (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
2. (l.c.) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
3. (l.c.) a coarse or brutish person.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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