Yo Yo™

ˈyo-yo [yo-yo yo-yos] noun, verb, adjective

noun (also Yo Yo™)(pl. yo-yos, Yo Yos)

a toy that consists of two round pieces of plastic or wood joined together, with a piece of string wound between them. You put one end of the string around your finger and make the yo-yo go up and down

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He kept bouncing up and down

like a yo-yo

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verb intransitive (+ adv./prep.)

to change repeatedly in size, amount, quality, etc. from one extreme to another

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When I was young my weight yo-yoed between 140 and 190 pounds.

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The paper industry has yo-yoed between boom and bust.

 

adjective only before noun

changing repeatedly in size, amount, quality, etc. from one extreme to another

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She worries about her pattern of yo-yo dieting.