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yay-boo en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Involving both celebration and disapproval.
This is a yay-boo story. Concern about child weight issues has focused energy and interest on the school nutrition program. Yay! This concern often translates into retrained feeding. Boo!
2005, Ellyn Satter, Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming, page 409:Yes, dear readers, it's another of those yay/boo letters.
2020, Mary Schaefer, Up and Away - Back in the Day:it was the decade of Viagra but also the decade of Lorena Bobbit, so it was a yay-boo period for penises.
2019, Mark Hentemann, “Peter & Lois' Wedding”, in Family Guy, spoken by Peter Griffin (Seth MacFarlane):[…] a context in which actual thought (as opposed to a Superbowl passions, a yay - boo mind-set ) could occur.
1994, Louise Armstrong, Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics, page 5: