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Yikes

/jaɪks/

Expression of shock and alarm.

📖 Definitions of "Yikes"

interjection
  1. 1

    Expression of shock and alarm.

    "Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!"

  2. 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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