yahoos
Crude, unruly bunch
Yahoos are crude, uncouth, or rowdy people—the sort who might start a fight at a bar or shout obscenities at a sporting event.
The word comes from Jonathan Swift's *Gulliver's Travels*, where Yahoos are brutish humanoid creatures contrasted with the rational Houyhnhnms.
A bunch of yahoos were tailgating in the parking lot.
The term is mildly contemptuous but often used with humor.
Crude, uncouth people
- ruffiansBrutal, lawless people
- brutesCruel, violent people
- oafsStupid, clumsy people
- hooligansViolent young troublemakers
thugs · rowdies · yobs · barbarians · vandals · philistines · louts · boors
Disorderly, noisy crowd
- troublemakersThose causing problems deliberately
- hellraisersRowdy disruptive people
- revelersThose who celebrate noisily
- riotersViolent public disorder participants
hoodlums · delinquents · roughnecks · rascals · scoundrels · punks · tearaways · yobbos
- SwiftMoving with great speed
- satireMockery exposing vice
- brutishCruel and uncivilized
- degradedReduced in rank or quality
humanity · misanthropy · savage · bestial · allegorical · creatures · dystopian
Exuberant western exclamation
- whoopingLoud exuberant crying out
- holleringCrying out loudly
- cheeringVocal encouragement given
- shoutingVocally projecting loudly
whoops · hurrah · celebration · exuberance · excitement · enthusiastic · cowboy · rodeo
louts
Crude, uncouth people
hooligans · thugs · rowdies · yobs · barbarians · vandals · philistines · louts · boors · cretins
rabble
Disorderly, noisy crowd
- troublemakersThose causing problems deliberately
- hellraisersRowdy disruptive people
- revelersThose who celebrate noisily
rioters · hoodlums · delinquents · roughnecks · rascals · scoundrels · punks · tearaways · yobbos · carousing
Gulliver
degraded · humanity · misanthropy · savage · bestial · allegorical · creatures · dystopian
yee-haw
Exuberant western exclamation
shouting · whoops · hurrah · celebration · exuberance · excitement · enthusiastic · cowboy · rodeo · jubilant
yahoosgentlefolk
Persons of high birth
sophisticates · aristocrats · ladies and gentlemen · patricians · connoisseurs
yahoosintellectuals
People of scholarly pursuits
scholars · thinkers · academics · literati · intelligentsia
- Yahoo AnswersRetired question-and-answer website
- Yahoo MailFree email platform
- Yahoo NewsOnline news aggregator
- Yahoo SportsSports media website
- Yahoo FinanceFinancial news and data website
- Yahoo MessengerOnline chat platform