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    [Noun]  | "yoke" | \ ˈyōk \


    1: a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together

    2: an arched device formerly laid on the neck of a defeated person

    3: a frame fitted to a person's shoulders to carry a load in two equal portions


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English yok, from Old English geoc; akin to Old High German joh yoke, Latin jugum, Greek zygon, Sanskrit yuga, Latin jungere to join;

    [Noun]  | "yolk" | \ ˈyōk \


    1: the yellow spheroidal mass of stored food that forms the inner portion of the egg of a bird or reptile and is surrounded by the white

    2: the whole contents of an animal ovum consisting of a protoplasmic formative portion and an inert nutritive portion

    3: material stored in an animal ovum that supplies food to the developing embryo and consists chiefly of proteins, lecithin, and cholesterol


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English yolke, from Old English geoloca, from geolu yellow {mat|yellow|};

    [Verb]  | "yoke" 


    1: to put a yoke on

    2: to join in or with a yoke

    3: to attach a draft animal to; also : to attach (a draft animal) to something


    Origin: before 12th century ;

    [Noun]  | "yokes" 


    1: the state of being an enslaved person;


      * e.g., " ... a people able at last to throw off the yoke and to embrace freedom "





    [Noun]  | "yoke" 


    1: the state of being an enslaved person;


      * e.g., " ... a people able at last to throw off the yoke and to embrace freedom "





    [Verb]  | "yokes" 


    1: to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole;


      * e.g., " ... yoked several ideas together to come up with a new theory "





    [Verb]  | "yoke" 


    1: to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole;


      * e.g., " ... yoked several ideas together to come up with a new theory "





     [ "yokes" ]

    1: What Irish people call ecstasy pills.

      * e.g.,  ... Have you got any yokes Seamus? Sorry Padraig, I sold my last one to Fiachra. 

     [ "yokes" ]

    1: smalldance drug

      * e.g.,  ... foley on a weekend 

     [ "yokes" ]

    1: Same a jokes, just sounds much cooler, and also makes you sound like you have an accent, which chicks love, or possibly a retard.

      * e.g.,  ... Allan:Yo man that bizzo was hot 

     [ "yokes" ]

    1: Goodlooking thighs/ass on a woman

      * e.g.,  ... Wow...look at the yokes on that girl! 

     [ "yokes" ]

    1: An alternate title for the card game Poker.

      * e.g.,  ... Hey Docta, you want to play some yokes at your house on friday? 

     [ "yokes" ]

    1: Working out, lifting weights

      * e.g.,  ... Yard call homeboy lets go get our yokes 

     [ "Yokes" ]

    1: Irish slang for ecstasy tablets.

      * e.g.,  ... I swapped a bag of yokes for a horse in 1992! 

     [ "yoked" ]

    1: well muscled; powerfully built.

      * e.g.,  ... Gosh, that Shaq is yoked! 

     [ "Yoked" ]

    1: Originally referring to a strong or large trap muscle between the shoulder and neck. Word originates from the "yoke" that is placed around the neck of oxen. Has now developed into a broad term for hugeness and strength.

      * e.g.,  ... "Fuck that guys huge, he has no neck!" 

     [ "Yokes" ]

    1: Irish street slang for the drug Ecstasy

      * e.g.,  ... Hey man have you got any yokes? 

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