yikes
/jaɪks/ interjection B2- 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!
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