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Definition: Yo-yo |
Yo-yoNoun1. A toy consisting of a spool that is reeled up and down on a string by motions of the hand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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The yo-yo is a toy consisting of a slightly flattened, round piece of plastic, wood, metal, etc., having a deep groove in which a string is wound. There is a loop at the free end of the string. It is played by placing the loop over the middle finger, grasping the yo-yo, then throwing it with a smooth motion. As it spins it in effect becomes a gyroscope, permitting various tricks to be performed. By flicking the wrist, the yo-yo can be made to return to the player's hand, with the cord again completely wound into the groove.
Related articles
- Chinese yoyo
- String figures
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Yo-Yo (born Yolanda Whitaker August 4, 1971) is an American hardcore rapper known primarily among hip hop fans and music critics. Her albums were never explicitly feminist, though she earned praise from some quarters for her advocacy of female empowerment, especially sexually. Her critically acclaimed debut was 1991's Make Way for the Motherlode (see 1991 in music) and was followed up by the equally acclaimed Black Pearl (1992, 1992 in music). After that, just as West Coast hip hop artists like Death Row Records labelmates Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg began topping the charts, Yo-Yo's albums became less and less successful, especially after Death Row began disintegrating in the middle of the decade.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yo-Yo (rapper)."
Crosswords: Yo-yo |
| Specialty definitions using "yo-yo": yoyo mode. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Yo-yo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (yo-yo), Turkish (yo-yo). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And a yo-yo! Buzz, I was a yo-yo (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) Yo-Yo the bi-atch was like what (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera) Always carry a yo-yo in case you get trapped in a coal mine (Moron Movies; writing credit: Griff Rhys Jones; Mel Smith) What do you call a yo-yo that goes down but won't come up (Muppet Babies; writing credit: Katherine Lawrence; Jeffrey Scott) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach (1997) Holmes and Yo-Yo (1976) | |
Song Titles | Yo-Yo (performing artist: Osmond's) | |
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| "Yo-yo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Yo-yo" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "yo-yo": yo-yo-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yo-yo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | ходя напред назад, тъпак (ass, blockhead, blunderhead, dimwit, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dunce, dunderhead, fool, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loon, lug, lummox, lunkhead, sheep's head, thick, tomnoddy, witling), колебая се (balance, boggle, chop, crane, demur, dilly dally, dither, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle, wobble), колеблив (backward, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fitful, halting, hesitant, hesitating, infirm, irresolute, labile, pendulous, queasy, rickety, rocky, tardy, tentative, vacillating, versatile, wavering, wobbly), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical), не се решавам (vacillate), мижитурка (jerk, pip squeak). (various references) | |
Czech | jojo. (various references) | |
French | yo-yo, poire, ballot. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jojó. (various references) | |
Italian | iò-iò. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yo-yoay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ioiô. (various references) | |
Russian | йо-йо. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jo-jo. (various references) | |
Spanish | yoyó, bobo (asinine, boob, booby, crazy, daft, dolt, dumbbell, dunce, fool, foolish, gawk, goof, half wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, lummox, mug, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, numbhead, oafish, sap, saphead, silly, simple simon, soft-headed, soppy, stupid, stupide, sucker, wet). (various references) | |
Swedish | lättlurad typ, jojo, dumskalle (blockhead, dimwit, dolt, dope, dummy, fathead, gawky, imbecile, jackass, jay, lug, lump, meat ball, muggins, sap, saphead, twerp, twit, Wally). (various references) | |
Turkish | yo-yo, inip çıkan (fluctuating, swinging, undulant). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | флюгер (vane, weathercock), безпринципна людина. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Yo-yo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oo-joa, oy-oy, yayo, yoy, yoya, yoyu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "o-o-y-y" | |
-2 letters: oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-o-y-y" | |
+3 letters: copyboy, myology. | |
+4 letters: bryology, copyboys, cytology, hokypoky, hologyny, homonymy, hypopyon, joyously, logotypy, monogyny, mycology, polygony, polypody, pyrology, toponymy, typology, xylotomy, zymology. | |
+5 letters: cryoscopy, etymology, hydrology, hymnology, hypocotyl, hypopyons, karyology, monophyly, mythology, okeydokey, phycology, polyphony, symbology. | |
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