yoofadjective [ before noun ]
uk/juːf/us/juːf/UK not standard humorousrelating to young people, especially those influenced by the most recent fashions and ideas:
The adverts target yoof culture.
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Describing people who are young
- adolescent
- at your mother's knee idiom
- be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
- flower
- fresh-faced
- in the flower of sb's youth idiom
- knee-high
- little
- mother
- prepubescent
- pubescent
- slip
- small
- teen
- time
- tweenager
- underage
- young
- youthful
- yute
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yoofnoun [ U ]
uk/juːf/us/juːf/UK not standard humorousyoung people:
He's a comedian who claims to be the voice of British yoof.
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Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- laddish
- mall rat
- minor
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teens
- tween
- tweenager
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- youngster
- yute
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