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  2. Yas (slang) - Wikipedia

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    Yas (/ j ɑː s /), sometimes spelled yass, is a playful or non-serious slang term equivalent to the excited or celebratory use of the interjection Yas was added to Oxford Dictionaries in 2017 and defined as a form of exclamation "expressing great pleasure or excitement". [1]

  3. Black Country dialect - Wikipedia

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    Although the term yam yam may come from ya'm (you am), [9] ya/ye is an archaic form of you and in many areas ye (pronounced like yea or ya) is used: "Owamya aer kid? — Ar ah'm owkay ta." — Ar ah'm owkay ta."

  4. List of South African slang words - Wikipedia

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    mung – the term mung means to lose a life playing video games and it also represents Pallsmoor jail, you gonna go to the"mung" when you stolen something and you get caught by police. mxit taal – lit. "mix it language". Refers to the text-based grammar usage that was popularized by the now-defunct Mxit, a free instant messaging service.

  5. Y'all - Wikipedia

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    Y'all is a contraction of you all.The spelling you-all in second-person plural pronoun usage was first recorded in 1824. [4] [5] The earliest two attestations with the actual spelling y'all are from 1856, [6] and in the Southern Literary Messenger (published in Richmond, Virginia) in 1858. [7]

  6. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    The term derives from preachers thumping their hands down on the Bible, or thumping the Bible itself, to emphasize a point during a sermon. The term's target domain is broad and can often extend to anyone engaged in a public show of religion, fundamentalist or not. The term is frequently used in English-speaking countries. [4] Cafeteria Christian

  7. YA - Wikipedia

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    Ya (river), a river in Tynset municipality in Innlandet county, Norway; Yet another (YA), a common initial part of acronyms; YoungArts (YA), a scholarship program for American high school students; A US Navy hull classification symbol: Ash barge (YA)

  8. The kids are saying ‘GYAT’: What does it mean? - AOL

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    Dictionary.com has a more general definition: “Gyatt or gyat is a slang term that is used to express strong excitement, surprise, or admiration.” Brush up on the latest teen slang

  9. Yankee - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of Yankee has varied over time. In the 18th century, it referred to residents of New England descended from the original English settlers of the region. Mark Twain used the word in this sense the following century in his 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. As early as the 1770s, British people applied the term to ...