Definitions for Yo-yo

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Spelling: [yoh-yoh]
IPA: /ˈyoʊ yoʊ/

Yo-Yo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in Yo-yo (-ooyy).

Definitions for Yo-yo

noun

  1. a spoollike toy consisting of two thick wooden, plastic, or metal disks connected by a dowel pin in the center to which a string is attached, one end being looped around the player's finger so that the toy can be spun out and reeled in by wrist motion.
  2. something that fluctuates or moves up and down, especially suddenly or repeatedly.
  3. Slang. a stupid, foolish, or incompetent person.

adjective

  1. Informal. moving up and down or back and forth; fluctuating; vacillating:

verb (used with object)

  1. Informal. to cause to yo-yo.

verb (used without object)

  1. Informal. to move up and down or back and forth; fluctuate or vacillate:

Origin of Yo-yo

earlier, a U.S. trademark for such a toy (1932); recorded in 1915 as the name of a Philippine toy; of undetermined orig.

Examples for Yo-yo

But about 40 years ago, during the Cultural Revolution, Ma Yo-De, a distant cousin of yo-yo Ma, faced a serious dilemma.

Then the yo-yo blew up, very quietly, as things do where there is no air to carry shock-and sound-waves, but very brilliantly.

“The yo-yo effect of them coming home and leaving again is detrimental to families,” she says.

What yo-yo Ma didn't know until recently was that the story of his name is actually much more complex, dating back 255 years.

"That's the best, that's the best we can do as parents," yo-yo said of his ancestor's advice.

That's pretty hard to keep track of, because I was like a yo-yo, back and forth from one parent to the other.

There were these Japanese yo-yo experts who used to do exhibitions at the Woolworth.

The ships that raided them were the Enterprise and the yo-yo.

Oh, for the good old days when Roy Acuff taught Richard Nixon how to use a yo-yo on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry.

yo-yo had never heard of Ji Cang or any of the ancestors whose lives are chronicled in the genealogy.

Word Value for Yo-yo
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Words with friends

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