yoyo.

n.  a dolt; a clueless person.

<I’ve had it up to my eyebrows with the yoyos them dopes in Anchorage send me; most of you couldn’t find your ass with two hands and a flashlight.  —Daba Stabenow, Midnight Come Again.> <[T]he word ‘human’ will take on a whole new meaning, and most yoyos will never be the wiser.  —Rev. Ivan Stang, The Book of the SubGenius: Being the Divine Wisdom, Guidance, and Prophecy of J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs, High Epopt of the Church of the SubGenius, Here Inscribed for the Salvation of Future Generations and in the Hope that Slack May Someday Reign on this Earth.>

n.  a high-speed aircraft maneuver named after the yo-yo toy, “used when overtaking a slower aircraft in a hard turn” (Daniel P. Raymer, Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach).

<In the high speed yoyo discussed earlier, the aircraft quickly pitches up, then rolls and turns at approximately corner speed for a few seconds, then rolls to almost inverted flight, pitches up (down) again, and then rolls out and dives.  —Daniel P. Raymer, Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach.>

YoYo.

n.  a nickname.

<Exactly how Bernie Schiffran came to be called YoYo wasn’t clear.  It may have been for the “Yo!” with which he greeted people, as if he were Rocky Balboa, or for the way he moved, as if being unspooled and gathered up on a string.  —Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure.>

Yoyo.

n.  a populated place in Burkina Faso.

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