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Yahoo

Other forms: Yahoos

Definitions of Yahoo
  1. noun
    a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
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    example of:
    search engine
    a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)
  2. noun
    one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
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    example of:
    character, fictional character, fictitious character
    an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
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