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Yoyo.
n.  a populated place in the Darfur region of Sudan.


n.  a populated place in the Nyanga region of Gabon.


n.  a populated place in Uganda.


n.  a port town in Nigeria.


n.  a river and crescent-shaped forest reserve in Ghana, north of the town of Enchi.


yoyo.
n.  a sharp gardening implement.

<Then there was the garden and yard equipment—hoes, rakes, shovels, ax handles, mowing machines, yoyo blades, caneknives.  —Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel.>

Yoyo.
n.  a stream in Cameroon.


n.  a stream in Central African Republic.


yoyo.
n.  a Tunisian fritter “made with egg dough that is leavened with baking powder instead of yeast and is perfumed with vanilla and orange zest” (Joyce Esersky Goldstein, Saffron Shores: Jewish Cooking of the Southern Mediterranean).



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