What does yikes mean?
Yikes means Expression of shock and alarm..
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/jaɪks/ · interjection
Expression of shock and alarm..
Yikes! A monster!
Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!
John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!
EXACTLY, BLOCKHEAD!! BONK [hitting head] / AGH… / [detective watching behind door] YIKES…DID HE WAKE UP?
Use yikes when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yikes means Expression of shock and alarm..
Common synonyms include eek, wow.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Yikes! A monster!
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