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Answer for the clue "Shout of surprise ", 5 letters:
yikes

Alternative clues for the word yikes

Gosh! — Oh no!
"Goodness gracious!"
'Holy mackerel!'
Cry of dread
"Yowza!" relative
"Holy cow!"
"My heavens!"

Word definitions for yikes in dictionaries

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.

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.)