Associated with U.S. southern dialect when addressing a group or more than a single person. However, increasingly used as an informal, softended singular pronoun well - "Y'all come back now." as opposed to - "Hey come back here!"
Also increasingly used as a gender neutral alternative to "guys" - Hey y'all, when are we gonna leave? Y'all wanna get some food?
Also increasingly used as a gender neutral alternative to "guys" - Hey y'all, when are we gonna leave? Y'all wanna get some food?
by JJese November 25, 2016
Get the Y'all mug.Translates to you all. People think it's cool to say but it really makes them sound like uneducated niggers. Hey, I guess that's the American way though since the younger generations are so fuckin stupid. Everytime I hear it I point and laugh at the dumbass monkey who spewed it from its mouth.
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by Chavemaker19 January 17, 2021
Get the Y'all mug.A saying commonly overused by people of the southern areas of the United States Of America. The saying was originated back in 1863 by a man of the name John Joseph Jingleheimer who was a slave owner. He used the phrase when 10 of his slaves were running away. He shouted at them, "Hey, y'all better get back here!" What he meant to say was, "Hey, all of you get back here!" Now this is why the Southern People of the U.S use the phrase Y'all instead of you all.
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Southern 2nd person plural pronoun. Most concise and easily distinguished. Despite the assurance of some emails that have been passing around, "y'all" is plural. Only an absolute idiot would use it as a singular pronoun.
Where are y'all going?
by Jacob August 11, 2004
Get the y'all mug.contraction for you all. Despite what some think, it is not only used by hicks and the uneducated. People from all walks of life, traditionally the southern states use it.
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