yucks

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of yuck.

   The comedian threw in a couple of crude jokes for easy yucks.

   Her dry one-liners earned more yucks than the headliner's whole set.

   Note

   A plural that only the countable senses of yuck can form. Something disgusting and the general insult are uncountable, so yucks almost always means laughs, as in cheap yucks or easy yucks. The other countable use is US slang from West Point, where a yuck is a yearling, a sophomore cadet, and a group of them are yucks.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of yuck.

   My uncle yucks it up at every family dinner, retelling the same old stories.

   The host yucks along with the audience to keep the mood light.

   Note

   One spelling, several verbs: someone who yucks may be laughing and joking, voicing disgust, gagging, or yanking something. The laughing sense is the one in yucks it up, meaning to clown around boisterously. Use it with some care, since yuck also stands in euphemistically for a much ruder verb. The spelling doubles as the plural noun for laughs, so a comic who yucks it up is chasing yucks.

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