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YOLO
[ yoh-loh ]
interjection
- You only live once! (used especially to rationalize impulsive or reckless behavior):
I bought those expensive shoes I've been eying—YOLO!
verb (used without object)
- to engage in impulsive or reckless behavior with this sort of rationalization:
We’ve been YOLOing all night.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of YOLO1
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Example Sentences
Alongside YOLO, “same damn time” is one of the most memorable recent additions to the lexicon.
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The Lonely Island (featuring Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar): “YOLO”
Pleasant news from Colonel Delafield, who, with a loss of 600, has destroyed thrice that number of the enemy before Yolo.
The son of a well-known linen-draper in Yolo, he was educated at the military college of Savannah.
This last he judged unwise, so that he was obliged to cling to Yolo itself.
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