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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈjəʊ.jəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈjoʊ.joʊ/
• (Australian) IPA: /ˈjəʉ.jəʉ/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈjɐʉ.jɐʉ/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈjo.jo/
• (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA: /ˈjoː.joː/
• 韻: -əʊjəʊ

名詞

yo-yo (plural yo-yos)

1. A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist.

   Coordinate terms: diabolo, whirligig

   I bought a yo-yo from the toy store yesterday.

2. (finance) A volatile market that moves up and down.
3. (informal) Someone who vacillates.
4. (aviation, military) A dogfighting maneuver involving the attacker temporarily exchanging altitude for airspeed, or vice versa, in order to rapidly catch up with the defender or to prevent an overshoot.
5. (sewing) A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
6. (informal) A foolish, annoying or incompetent person.

   It is hard to watch the management for very long and not conclude that the place is run by a bunch of yo-yos.

   • 1985, Sting, Mark Knopfler, “Money for Nothing”, in Brothers in Arms, performed by Dire Straits:

     Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     Henry glanced past him at the few other customers currently in attendance. "Hey! Any of you yo-yos headed up Castle Hill?"

   • 1992 February 2, Mitzel, quoting James Kirkwood, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 12:

     When these yo-yos came into the courtroom with their ridiculous testimony... it was a terrible circus.

下位語

(dogfight maneuver):

• high yo-yo
• low yo-yo

派生語

派生した語

• → Dutch: jojo
• → Italian: yo-yo

動詞

yo-yo (third-person singular simple present yo-yos, present participle yo-yoing, simple past and past participle yo-yoed)

1. (intransitive) To vacillate; to move up and down.
   • 1990, The Economist, volume 316, page 93:

     The yo-yoing stockmarket whizzed back up by around a quarter and then started to fall again.

参照

Further reading

• yo-yo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia