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"Holy cow!"
Answer for the clue ""Holy cow!" ", 5 letters:
yikes
Alternative clues for the word yikes
Word definitions for yikes in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
interj. 1 (context humorous slang English) (non-gloss definition: Expressing fear.) 2 (context humorous slang English) (non-gloss definition: Expressing empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exclamation of alarm or surprise, by 1953; perhaps from yoicks , a call in fox-hunting, attested from c.1770. Yike "a fight" is slang attested from 1940, of uncertain connection.