YIKES
/jaɪks/
12
Scrabble
11
WWF
Y(4) I(1) K(5) E(1) S(1)
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Definition
/jaɪks/
interjection
- Expression of shock and alarm.“Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!”
- Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.“John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!”
Source: Wiktionary
