What does hoo-boy mean?

hoo-boy

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

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"Across the aisle, she was absentmindedly fiddling with a loose piece of yarn that had unraveled from her sweater, wrapping it around her finger the same way Derek was wrapped around her finger. And she didn't even know it. Hoo-boy. She killed him."
"And hoo-boy I'd like to see the expression on her face when whe realizes she has a bus with no driver."
"Didn't think I'd like it, but hoo-boy, was I wrong."

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