Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A call or cry, usually given to attract attention.
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Examples
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Yo-ho, yo-ho as a – so, yeah – so I would say that.
CHUCK Interview: Zachary Levi and Joshua Gomez – Collider.com 2010
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Yo-ho, yo-ho as a – so, yeah – so I would say that.
HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Chuck’s Zachary Levi and Josh Gomez Talks to Eclipse! 2010
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Methinks it makes the usual yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me that rolls off of my tongue, if you will, look rather tame.
Greetings, LA! 2006
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Jules sings 'Oh-oh oh, oh' for the first 2 stanzas and changes to 'yo-ho oh, oh' for the final two - maybe that's where the yo-ho originated.
The Santa Fe Trail 1911
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Fifteen men on a dead man's chest -- yo-ho, and a bottle of rum!
The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath 1901
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Look here; I've read books about your yo-ho sailors and jolly tars, and your bright blue seas, but them as wrote 'em ought to be flogged.
To The West George Manville Fenn 1870
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He vindicated the honour of Warbeach by drinking a match against a Yorkshire skipper till four o'clock in the morning, when it was a gallant sight, my boys, to see Hampshire steadying the defeated North-countryman on his astonished zigzag to his flattish-bottomed billyboy, all in the cheery sunrise on the river -- yo-ho! ahoy!
Rhoda Fleming — Complete George Meredith 1868
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North-countryman on his astonished zigzag to his flattish-bottomed billyboy, all in the cheery sunrise on the river -- yo-ho! ahoy!
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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North-countryman on his astonished zigzag to his flattish-bottomed billyboy, all in the cheery sunrise on the river -- yo-ho! ahoy!
Rhoda Fleming — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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It's a yo-ho, blow-the-man-down hilarious piratin 'journey you won't want to miss!
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