yo-yo
溜溜球,悠悠球,溜达,溜冰
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Definitions
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plural yo-yos.
- : 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.
- : something that fluctuates or moves up and down, especially suddenly or repeatedly.
- : Slang. a stupid, foolish, or incompetent person.
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- : Informal. moving up and down or back and forth; fluctuating; vacillating: yo-yo prices; a yo-yo foreign policy.
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- : Informal. to move up and down or back and forth; fluctuate or vacillate: Mortgage rates are still yo-yoing.
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- : Informal. to cause to yo-yo.
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Examples
The Yo app might have brought “one-bit” communication to the public attention, but the Apple Watch thrives on it.
Garrett discusses being stop-lossed, which is a psychological yo-yo that really screwed him up.
I yo AIRGORDON and the rest of my Yo friends when I wake up for no discernible reason, other than to assert my existence.
And I can tap and tap and tap and yo and yo and yo, contemplating or not contemplating the inanity that is this life.
I yo my friend BOIBLOG about 15 times on the way to the train station.
An' if any of yo' uns insinuates I am afraid, yo' uns will have to settle with Josh Hicks, an' that mighty quick.
Just then Hicks caught sight of Duncan, and yelled: "Bill, did yo' un meet a party of about a dozen men a few minutes ago?"
"I'll bet yo 'un a hoss I ken put a ball through that Yank's heart at fifty paces," he roared.
Yo warnt one ob de oberflowin kind, Miss Annie, admitted the old black woman.
When he saw Harry he stopped and his hand went to his belt, "Who be yo' un," he growled, "and what do yo' un want?"