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Nearly rhetorical affirmative response to someone else's observation. Often muttered by pirates.
Passerby: Thee's a steering wheel sticking out of your pants!

Pirate: Yar, it's driving me nuts...
yar! by Looger March 9, 2004
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Dexter: Yes, yes. She was quite a boat, the True Love, wasn't she?
Tracy: Was, and is.
Dexter: My, she was yar.
- Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story
yar! by Jazz March 12, 2004
Christopher Colombus: "Yar! I fell off the cliff!"
Servant: "Ur a pirate?!":|
yar! by Lusterveil April 14, 2004
An exclamaition of agreement (and also used as a random exlamaition) often used by "pirates," but since pirates have now become "illegal downloaders of software/music" and those "pirates" tend to be teenagers, "yar!" is basically an exclamaition of agreement (and also used as a random exlamaition)often used by teenagers.
Bob: Yar! This song I just downloaded is uncensored!
Lara: Yar!
yar! by the sane maniac February 2, 2004
In some South Asian dialects, means "friend"
yar! by shai-hulud January 30, 2004
In some East Indian dialects, "yar" (or more appropriately "yaar") means friend, but it is used in many sentences as a sort of pause.

Uses:
1. To talk to a friend.
2. To add a frustration tone.
3. To express anger.
4. To insert a short pause, akin to the English word "um," though never used more than once in a sentence.
1. What is up, yaar.
2. Oh no, we're gonna die, yaar.
3. What the hell was that, yaar.
4. I was at the mall the other day, yaar, and I bought this shirt.
yar! by Vinay Kapadia March 24, 2004