Usually means: Informal greeting or attention-getter.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word yo:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. yo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. YO, yo: Merriam-Webster
  3. yo, yo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yo: Collins English Dictionary
  6. YO, Yo, yo, yO, yO: Wordnik
  7. yo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. YO, y.o, yo, yo': Wiktionary
  9. yo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. yo: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. y.o, yo: Dictionary.com
  12. yo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. yo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Yo (Alex Greenwald album), Yo (Cyrillic), Yo (Excuse Me Miss), Yo (album), Yo (app), Yo (cyrillic), Yo (disambiguation), Yo (kana), Yo (surname), Yo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Yo: Rhymezone
  16. yo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. yo: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. YO: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. YO: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. yo, yo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. yo: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Y.O, Y.O, Yo: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The letter Ё, ё.
noun:  A technique in which the yarn is passed over the right-hand needle. In general, the new loop is knitted on the next row, either by itself (producing a hole) or together with an adjacent stitch.
verb:  To make a yarnover.
noun:  Abbreviation of year(s) old; also y.o., y/o.
noun:  (crochet) Initialism of yarn over.
noun:  Obsolete form of yue, a traditional Chinese unit of volume. [(historical) An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.]
noun:  (knitting) Alternative form of YO: [A technique in which the yarn is passed over the right-hand needle. In general, the new loop is knitted on the next row, either by itself (producing a hole) or together with an adjacent stitch.]
noun:  Abbreviation of yarnover. [(knitting) A technique in which the yarn is passed over the right-hand needle. In general, the new loop is knitted on the next row, either by itself (producing a hole) or together with an adjacent stitch.]
verb:  (knitting) Alternative form of YO: [To make a yarnover.]
verb:  Abbreviation of yarnover. [(knitting) To make a yarnover.]
noun:  Abbreviation of Yogyakarta, a special region of Indonesia. [A city, the provincial capital of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia]
noun:  (knitting) Abbreviation of yarnover. [(knitting) A technique in which the yarn is passed over the right-hand needle. In general, the new loop is knitted on the next row, either by itself (producing a hole) or together with an adjacent stitch.]
verb:  (knitting) Abbreviation of yarnover. [(knitting) To make a yarnover.]

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