yikes

Interjection

Meaning

Expression of shock and alarm.
Yikes! A monster!
Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!

Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.
John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

hey wow ooh whoa oh geez what yow eek whew zounds eugh eep zoinks

Antonyms

pah humph eh fiddlestick faugh

Phrases with the word

yikes bikes

Anagrams

skiey

Examples

Nicki Minaj Claps Back at Meek Mill After He Dissed Her Husband, Twitter War EnsuesThe 'Yikes' femcee and her former boyfriend are embroiled in a war of words on social media after he was caught liking an Instagram post mocking Kenneth Petty. Source: Internet

If one truly acquires real strep throat, yikes! Source: Internet

It was then that I had my husband take over the late-night feedings (which he actually loved doing), and then I took it one step further and asked my mother-in-law (yikes!) to come be with me a few afternoons when I returned from work. Source: Internet

How can you give these wonderfully enlightened talks about how our food eating habits as U.S.ers are bad for the planet, and then post recipes that include harvesting tuna and (yikes) swordfish. Source: Internet

And a small office, yikes. Source: Internet

And yikes, what did “Amlach” do? Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Yijun yike yikers yikes bikes yikes on bikes yikker