Home › Words › W › whyoswhyos/ˈʍaɪoʊz/whyos means A street gang of New York City during the mid to late 19th century.whyos is pronounced /ˈʍaɪoʊz/.EtymologyOnomatopoeic, from the gang's cry.nounA street gang of New York City during the mid to late 19th century.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.wop 50% match — An person of Italian descent. vs whyos →whiteboy 49% match — A member of the Whiteboys, a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland, using violent tactics to defend tenant farmers' land rights for subsistence farming. vs whyos →wea 47% match — An indigenous people of western Indiana, USA and surrounding regions . vs whyos →woos 47% match — A coward; a wuss. vs whyos →wob 46% match — A Wobbly (member of the Industrial Workers of the World). vs whyos →wishoskan 46% match — Of or relating to a former language family that included Wiyot. vs whyos →gangsterwise 45% match — According to, or in the manner of a gangster vs whyos →gangish 45% match — Characteristic of a gang or gang affiliation vs whyos →