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n. - A large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.

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  • When they asked their Sherpa friend Ang Zambu what made them he said 'yeti'.
  • He joked with the participants, once calling himself the '' yeti '' among the sheep and the yaks.
  • Mysterious bald 'yeti' creature puzzles locals in China
  • If this is the "yeti" that everyone is so afraid of, that cage better be 10 feet high.
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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