Yahoo

noun

1. 1

   One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.

   I therefore often begged his Favour to let me go among the Herds of Yahoos in the Neighbourhood, to which he always very graciouſly conſented, being perfectly convinced, that the Hatred I bore thoſe Brutes, would never ſuffer me to be corrupted by them; […]

proper noun

1. 1

   Variant of Yahoo!Alternative form of Yahoo!.

   That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day.

   You have every right to be skeptical as another big company — this time it’s Yahoo — says you can claim some cash to make amends for a massive data breach.

   A person with a Gmail account can send messages to a person with a Yahoo account because email systems are interoperable.

noun

1. 1

   informalAn employee of the Internet company Yahoo!

   But having two beaming Chief Yahoos on the cover is an implied seal of approval.

   Instead of driving down the street to meetings, soon Yahoos need merely stroll the walkways that crisscrossed a bright green lawn.

   Some Yahoos got filthy rich, but many more lost it all.

verb

1. 1

   informalTo search using the Yahoo! search engine.

   I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.

   I searched, Yahooed, Googled and everything else I could.

   We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.

   He Googled, Binged, and Yahooed sharks, shark life, shark types, shark history, shark food, and anything else shark-related.

Forms

plural

Yahoos

past tense

Yahooed

past participle

Yahooed

present participle

Yahooing

third person singular

Yahoos