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YOLO

[ yoh-loh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

interjection

You only live once! (used especially to rationalize impulsive or reckless behavior):
I bought those expensive shoes I've been eying—YOLO!

verb (used without object)

to engage in impulsive or reckless behavior with this sort of rationalization:
We’ve been YOLOing all night.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of YOLO¹

First recorded in 1995–2000; but popularized by the Canadian rapper Drake in his song “The Motto”

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“I’m very worried that it could affect the entire tomato industry,” said Bruce Rominger, who grows tomatoes along with other produce on a farm in Yolo County in the Sacramento Valley.

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The fourth-generation Kodas still farm rice today, in Yolo County.

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Then in 1989, David Hunt and Doug Lainer were arrested as suspects in Yolo County.

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The suspects sat in prison for three years waiting for their trial in Yolo County Superior Court.

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Not all of the original evidence had been well preserved, and much of it had to be shipped down to Sacramento from Yolo County, where the initial investigation against Hunt and Lainer had taken place.

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