yikes
/jaɪks/
interjection
- 1
Expression of shock and alarm.
“Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!”
- 2
Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.
“John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!”
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