exclamation of alarm or surprise, by 1953; perhaps from yoicks, a call in fox-hunting, attested from c. 1770. Yike "a fight" is slang attested from 1940, of uncertain connection.
Yggdrasil
Yid
Yiddish
yield
yielding
yikes
yin
yins
yip
yippee
Yippie
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