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yikes

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/jaɪks/ English

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interjection

  1. Expression of shock and alarm.“Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!”
  2. Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.“John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!”

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