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Meaning of yikes

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

yikes

Pronunciation:/jaɪks/

interjection

Definitions

  1. Expression of shock and alarm.

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

  2. Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.

    Example: John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!