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exclamation
informalUsed to greet someone, attract their attention, or express excitement.
- ‘‘Yo, Ben!’ ‘Hey Eugene, I thought it was you.’’
Origin
Natural exclamation: first recorded in late Middle English.
pronoun
non-standard spelling of you
- ‘yo go home, girl’
possessive determiner
non-standard spelling of your
- ‘what did you do wit' yo money?’
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