Yo
Greetings; interjection used for attracting attention Wikipedia.org records the neologism 'yo' as originating in Philadelphia "decades ago." 'Yo' is of colloquial nature, and is used most More…
yo
Short for "your" second person possessive pronoun. =You need to sit yo narrow behind back down. Etymology : Common in southern or African American dialects of spoken English, More…
yo (5)
hey, hello ="Yo! What are you doing to my car?” Etymology : The phrase is thought to be made popular as a sailor or huntsman’s call circa 1420. It gained popularity during World War More…
yo crib
A word phrase to denote someone’s house. =Yo is a clipped word from the word ‘your’. Crib is implying ‘home’. Just as one can consider a baby’s crib as a place the baby resides, so does More…
yoga
exercising yoga As a foreigner, Kyonghoon didn’t really know the difference between noun and verb. However, now I found myself asking people saying, ‘Do you yoga?’ instead More…
yoink
to take or steal. Presumably, metonymy occurred, relating acquiring something to taking something (since acquiring as it occurs in video games rarely happens in real life). Thus, when one More…
Yoink
An interjection used to accentuate the action of filching anothers property. Yoink is simply an interjection used to accentuate friendly misappropriation of property. It is used to let the More…
Yoked
Describing one who is very large and muscular. Especially when referring to the upper body. =This word refers to the term used to mean a team of oxen. Since oxen are known to be strong More…
Yoked(1)
(adjective) Being extremely muscular. Likely coming from the fact that the person is now strong, like an ox, and can presumably be attached to a yoke and pull a cart or plow. “Getting yoked” More…
yola
Hi “Yola” is a concise and clever alterative to “hi”, “hey”, “what’s up?”, and other quick, casual greetings. =Yola! Etymology : More…
? Yolk
(Conversion from noun to verb) Yolk, V - To squirt (egg) yolk [Conversion from noun to verb of O.E. 'yeolca', no affixes added] =No apparent relation to any social group, as the More…
YOLO
You only live once. =Interestingly on the West coast it is slang for cocaine. Unsure of which meaning came about first but it would seem possible that YOLO describes a risk takers More…
yoube
A poor Texas hold ‘em starting hand, specifically an 8 and a 3[short for “you be a fool if you be playing this hand”] Possible reason used: There aren’t that many More…
Youngify
To make someone look younger than they really are through make-up or photoshopping. It was easier to say "youngify" than "make look younger" and, because he used a common ending "-ify", we More…
yous
(derivation) used when referring to multiple people one is talking to =Yous guys need to help yourself. This is a term used in the northern Midwest. It is used in the same way as More…
youthspert
An expert on young people, one who focuses on the habits and viewpoints of modern youth. The word youthspert is interesting because it plays on the interesting phonology of the letter x. In More…
youtube
to look up or search for a video on the website called ‘You Tube’ (www.youtube.com) =The proper noun of the website ‘YouTube’ is a compound of the words ‘you’ and ‘tube.’ The compound was More…
YouTube
To look up on YouTube. =The meaning of this word changed from a noun actually descibing the website that is YouTube, to the act of looking a video up on YouTube. Etymology : The name of More…
youtube degree
a bachelor's degree one rewards to himself after watching several "how-to" videos on youtube and declares themself an expert on the subject =Arising in this computer era of More…
YouTube money
money earned through YouTube videos =Videos that have ads before them provide the user with money based on the number of views. YouTube money is usually only earned in substantial sums by More…