I've seen "solution" verbed quite a bit, as in "Let's solution that", but until today I don't remember seeing its complement, the nouning of "solve": "What are the solves?"
Rule 1 of verbing and nouning: It's nearly always older than you think. OED's first citation for "solve" as a noun? 1780.
'Hooray', in the sense of 'shout of joy', can be tracked back to the turn of the 1700s. Etymology unknown.
'Yahoo', in the sense of 'coarse ruffian', comes from Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726). It is very likely unrelated to 'yahoo', in the sense of 'shout of joy', which can (along with 'yippee' and 'wahoo') be tracked to the turn of the 1900s.
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