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Definition of yippee exclamation from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

yippee

exclamation

/jɪˈpiː/

/ˈjɪpi/

(old-fashioned, informal)

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used to show that you are pleased or excited
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Word Originnatural exclamation: first recorded in American English in the 1920s.

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