yo-yo
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yo-yo
- /ˈjəʊ.jəʊ/ UK
- /ˈjoʊ.joʊ/ US
- /ˈjəʉ.jəʉ/ Australia
- /ˈjɐʉ.jɐʉ/ New Zealand
- /ˈjo.jo/ Scotland
- /ˈjoː.joː/ Wales
Rhymes with -əʊjəʊ
Where it comes from
Genericized trademark. Most likely from Ilocano yóyo, or another Philippine cognate.
noun yo-yos
- A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist. I bought a yo-yo from the toy store yesterday.
- A volatile market that moves up and down.
- Someone who vacillates.
- A dogfighting maneuver involving the attacker temporarily exchanging altitude for airspeed, or vice versa, in order to rapidly catch up with the defender or to prevent an overshoot.
- A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
- A foolish, annoying or incompetent person. It is hard to watch the management for very long and not conclude that the place is run by a bunch of yo-yos.
verb yo-yos · yo-yoing · yo-yoed
- To vacillate; to move up and down. The yo-yoing stockmarket whizzed back up by around a quarter and then started to fall again.
Translations
Talk about this word "yo-yo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/yo-yo. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. yo-yo. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/yo-yo "yo-yo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/yo-yo.Cite this
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