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yahoo

noun as in savage

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Sextortion has become big business in Nigeria involving thousands of young men nicknamed “yahoo boys”.

From BBC

They see their voters as a bunch of yahoos who are stupid enough to believe their lies.

From Salon

Perhaps he goes too far in stacking the deck: Though some of Wolff’s antagonists, especially the girl’s yahoo of a father, make clearly antisemitic remarks, Wolff herself is almost worse.

It's not clear even to the yahoos who worship Trump how rioting at a courthouse would do much to derail the march of justice.

From Salon

Regular soldiers looked down on General Hamdan and his paramilitaries as a motley crew — “a bunch of jumped-up yahoos from the sticks, not proper military men,” as one Western ambassador put it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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