yo-yo

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

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

2. isim A volatile market that moves up and down.
3. isim Someone who vacillates.
4. isim 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.
5. isim A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
6. isim A foolish, annoying or incompetent person.

   “It is hard to watch the management for very long and not conclude that the place is run by a bunch of yo-yos.”

7. fiil To vacillate; to move up and down.

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