Yo-yo

Quick meaning: Yo-yo is a noun meaning (finance) A volatile market that moves up and down.

Meaning

(finance) A volatile market that moves up and down.

More Meanings

1. (informal) Someone who vacillates.
2. (sewing) A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
3. (informal) A foolish, annoying or incompetent person.
4. (intransitive) To vacillate; to move up and down.
5. A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist.
6. (aviation, military) A dogfighting maneuver involving the attacker temporarily exchanging altitude for airspeed, or vice versa, in order to rapidly catch up with the defender or to prevent an overshoot.

Example Sentences

I bought a yo-yo from the toy store yesterday.

Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it

The yo-yoing stockmarket whizzed back up by around a quarter and then started to fall again.

When these yo-yos came into the courtroom with their ridiculous testimony... it was a terrible circus.

Word Forms

• yo-yos
• yo-yoing
• yo-yoed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include yoyo, loop-the-loop, yarnwindle, whizgig, spinning wheel, whorl.

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