: Re: Looking for a better word than "Yikes" I'm trying to find the right word to use in a (serious) comic I'm writing. The character is an eighteen year old American girl, talking to some older

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In modern teenage parlance, and assuming you actually do need to provide an utterance that just comes out unbidden, you could try d'oh:

[Merriam-Webster]
—used to express sudden recognition of a foolish blunder or an ironic turn of events

It's the second part of that definition that applies here: "an ironic turn of events." In other words, "What? I can't believe it's them. That's typical …"

Any teenager, especially any teenager who's seen The Simpsons, will be familiar with this:

"D'oh!"

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