How to pronounce “yo-yo”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• (finance) A volatile market that moves up and down.
• (informal) Someone who vacillates.
• (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.
• (sewing) A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
• (informal) A foolish, annoying or incompetent person.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To vacillate; to move up and down.

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