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the yuk
verb
To laugh exuberantly.
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And then there is the yuk factor, because the experiments often mingle plant and human genes.
Though Lord Rose is not yet well known, he at least possesses none of the "yuk" factor that some of the aforementioned would bring to any campaign.
He acknowledges that in the west eating insects is a hard sell: "It is very important how you prepare them, you have to do it very nicely, to overcome the yuk factor".
She is on characteristically good form, whether tracing problems with the Enlightenment idea of progress, diagnosing the source of the "yuk factor" in responses to biotechnology, or taking proposals to reintroduce wolves into the wild as a chance to reflect on why only some beasts are beastly.
Another toy prompting the yuk factor beloved by kids is an interactive monster-under-the-bed called Xeno, which can display more than 40 different expressions through its animated LCD eyes, has pull-out snot dripping from its nose and can fart to order.
Here we focus on the ATPases of two ESX systems, the ESX-1 system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the yuk system of Bacillus subtilis.
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Other selections headed to a theater soon include the yuk-yuk zombie amusement "George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead," which opens on Friday; Ramin Bahrani's slice of Queens neorealism, "Chop Shop" (Feb.
It's spelled out but dramatically inert, lost among the yuks of the Reed kookiness.
She's quick and dry, but somehow too fundamentally earnest to lunge for the yuks.
Yet while all this foul play can make you blanch, these excesses are affirmations of the humanity that comes with the yuks.
With all the yuks, you'd never guess that this list has provoked what may prove the biggest struggle between two branches of the government since Watergate.
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