Country Dictionary

Your Obedient Servant

(First mentioned on the NPR show, "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me.")

P.J. O'Rourke: Why do you people need abbreviations? If I want to say WTF, I'll just say "WTF". Whatever happened to "Your Obedient Servant?"
Peter Sagal: Now we say "YOS."

Dear P.J.,
Thks 4 the memories.
YOS,
Peter

Slang for you.

Yo! You going to that big party at Jake's house tonight?

Interchangeable with the words "huh" or "what" or "hey"

Anon 1: Yo!
Anon 2: Yo?

Yoed is the name parents gives a chubby mildly obese kid. He loves playing video games where he gets carried.

Yoed love cake.

yoing (ADJ) saying when someone or something is playing with a yo yo

The yo yo master did not answer he just kept on YOING.

What all the boys yell at each other across the classroom like the total sonofabitches they are

Makes me wanna puke

Boy 1: Yo!
Boy 2: YO!
Boy 1: Dude!
Me: *facepalm*

The definitive article "Hey" or a slang expression used as a greeting or to get someone's attention.

Hey yo, what's up! Yo, how you livin'?