Wiktionary:Word of the day/2025/July 12

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Word of the day
for July 12
yippee ki-yay interj (originally and chiefly US)
  1. Used to express excitement or joy: yippee.
  2. (by extension) Used to express defiance against, or to startle, an opponent.

The film Die Hard, in which the protagonist John McClane (played by Bruce Willis) famously uses the expression together with an expletive, premiered in the United States on this day in 1988.

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