yahoo exclamation exclamation: yahoo expressing great joy or excitement. "yahoo—my plan worked!" synonyms: wahoo, yippee, hooray, hurrah, hallelujah, bravo, hot dog, whoopee, yay, yee-haw "Yahoo! We won!" Yahoo noun informal noun: yahoo; plural noun: yahoos a rude, noisy, or violent person. synonyms: redneck, boor, lout, oaf; More barbarian, Neanderthal, brute, thug; informalclod, roughneck "her brother married into a family of yahoos"