"yo momma" meaning in English

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Interjection

Rhymes: -ɒmə Head templates: {{en-interj}} yo momma
  1. (African-American Vernacular) A general purpose insult.
    Sense id: en-yo_momma-en-intj-2eh9Oqrv Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English, English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1973, Black World, page 55",
          "text": "\"where you git it?\" asked Freddie. \"Yo momma.\" \"Aw, Rank, cut that shit out, man.\"",
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          "ref": "1991, Evelyn Baker Dandy, Black Communications: Breaking Down the Barriers, page 87",
          "text": "In order to keep the teacher from knowing what we were doing, we just cleared our throats and that meant “your mother\" (yo momma) .",
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          "text": "\"I'm out stank man!\" I said to the laughing gas man. \"Yo momma.\"",
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          "ref": "2007, Marc Parent, Aimee Bender, Benjamin Cheever, The Secret Society of Demolition Writers",
          "text": "In that vein, I would like to dedicate this book to the drivers of tonight's heat: to Aimee, Ben, Mike, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Ro, Chris, Anna, John, Alice, and Lauren—bad-to-the-bone outlaw crushers every last one of you—yo' momma.",
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