yippee

Example Sentences

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While the Stones did it as a studly kiss-off, the tone here is pure yippee, wailing guitars and a big old shrug.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2020

A: I didn’t say yippee to all old people dying—and please, let’s leave Hitler out of it.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2015

When people think we are sitting here rubbing our hands together and saying yippee, we are not.

From The Guardian • Jan. 1, 2013

Texans, he writes, disliked Kennedy because he "refused to give the world a kick in the old kazzazza," and because his "Weltansicht was entirely lacking in yippee."

From Time Magazine Archive

He didn’t jump and yippee like he did after the first sentence.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli