"Yuk it up" nghĩa là gì?

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"Yuk it up" -> nghĩa là cư xử ngớ ngẩn, ngây ngô, đùa cợt. 

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Because the way Nebraska -- yes, last-place Nebraska -- was dunking on the court and dancing on the sidelines, scoring at will and embarrassing Rutgers in every way imaginable, this game deserved that yuk-it-up treatment.

Robin Williams was one of our greatest comedic (hài kịch) actors, but “Patch Adams” was easily one of his worst films. In the comedy, he played a suicidal man who becomes a medical student and questions the traditional doctor-patient interactions. He’d rather yuk it up instead. 

This wasn’t an accident. CNN made a deliberate (thận trọng) programming decision to have the two bros yuk it up on the air.  No doubt it was good for ratings.  But not for the public’s perception of journalistic fairness.

"The transition was pretty smooth from hockey," said Sestito during a telephone conversation earlier this week.  "The hardest adjustment was not being around my teammates.  We used to yuk it up in the locker room pretty good.  But, I got lucky with my second career. There are 12 guys at the firehouse, and everybody breaks everybody's chops."

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