n. the number eleven, as said by a craps player who doesn’t like to say the actual number for superstitious reasons.
<He likes to put a little zip in his dialogue, so when he tosses his chip to the stickman he’ll yell: “Gimme me the yo.” ... [A] couple of other cats like the sound of the word and they begin a steady stream of chips being sailed to the center of the table, while the sound[s] of yo-yo-yo-yo-yo-yo fill the air. —John Patrick, So You Wanna Be a Gambler: Advanced Craps.>
yo-yo.
(also yoyo.) n. a toy which spins on a string.
<The yoyo spun and twirled, looped, double looped! It would do anything she wanted it to do! —Teri Perl, Women and Numbers: Lives of Women Mathematicians Plus Discovery Activities.>
Yo-Yo.
n. a bayou (officially known as the Old Sabine River) in the Toledo Bend Lake reservoir of Louisiana.
Yoa.
n. a lake in the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibe region of Chad.
n. a populated place in Cameroon; a stream in Cameroon.
n. a populated place in the Yomou region of Guinea.
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