yoked

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of yoke. Use it for joined animals, or for people or things tied together.

   The farmer yoked the two oxen before plowing.

   Their names were yoked together in every newspaper story.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Wearing a yoke, a wooden bar that joins two animals so they can pull together.

   Two yoked oxen pulled the heavy cart up the hill.

   The yoked buffalo walked slowly through the muddy rice field.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Having big, strong muscles, especially in the neck and the tops of the shoulders.

   After a year at the gym, my cousin is totally yoked.

   The new coach is so yoked that his shirts barely fit.

   Similarjacked, ripped, swole, buff, muscular

   Oppositescrawny, puny

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4. 4
   adjectivefiguratively

   Kept under someone's power and not free.

   The story is about yoked workers who finally stand up to their boss.

   The yoked villagers had to give half their crops to the lord.

   Similaroppressed, downtrodden

   Oppositefree, liberated

5. 5
   adjectiveslang

   Married to someone.

   My brother and his girlfriend are finally getting yoked next summer.

   Are those two yoked, or just dating?

   Similarmarried

   Oppositesingle, unmarried

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