noun, verb (used with or without object), yokked, yok·king. Slang.
- yuk1.
noun
- a loud, hearty laugh.
- a joke evoking such a laugh.
verb (used with or without object), yukked, yuk·king.
- to laugh or joke: The audience really yukked it up at the movie.
n.slang, “gentile, non-Jew,” pejorative, 1920, from Yiddish, a reversed and altered form of goy. “laughter, something evoking laughs,” 1964, imitative; see yuck (2).