yee-yee ass
Poor-quality; unimpressive, lame.
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Expressions you’ll hear in the US — distinctly American usage first, then widespread staples.
yeen
A hyena, often in reference to an anthropomorphic depiction of one.
yeet
Expressing excitement or approval.
yeeter
Someone who yeets.
yeezy
Kanye West (born 1977), American rap musician.
yegg
A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
yeggman
A person who breaks open safes, a burglar; a yegg.
yell out
To exclaim loudly.
yellow bone
A light-skinned person of mixed ethnicity including black.
yellow boy
A gold coin; a guinea or sovereign.
yellow fever
An attraction to ethnically East Asian men or women, expressed by non-East Asian (especially white European male or white American) people.
yellow jacket
A capsule of pentobarbital sodium (or sometimes other barbiturates), especially when used as a recreational drug.
yellow off
To stop maturing prematurely and also usually die off.
yellow out
To become thoroughly yellow, such as drying tobacco leaves, ripening fruit or aging newspaper.
yellow sheet
A criminal record.
yellow up
To become or make (something) yellow, such as a material aging, a plant leaf or fruit ripening or developing a rust disease.
yellowskin
A yellow-skinned person, often of Southeast Asian or East Asian ethnic origin.
yer one
An unknown or unnamed person.
yes
To attempt to flatter someone by habitually agreeing
yessuh
Pronunciation spelling of yessir, representing African-American Vernacular English.
yesterday is gone
It is impossible to change or to relive what has already happened.
yestergay
A former gay male who is now in a heterosexual relationship.
YG
Initialism of young gangster.
yiddisher
One who speaks Yiddish.
yidmaxx
To seek to increase one's Jewishness.
yield up
To give something against one's will.
yiff
The bark of a fox.
yiffable
Able to be yiffed; sexually attractive, fuckable.
yiffiness
The state or quality of being yiffy.
yiffless
Without yiff.
yiffpile
A furpile involving sexual activity.
yiffsuit
Synonym of murrsuit.
yiffy
Sexually aroused.
yinglet
A fictional small, furred, sapient, mollusc-eating creature with characteristics of rats, birds, and reptiles and a pointed "shell-tooth" that impedes the pronunciation of dental fricatives.
yippy
A yard patrol boat.
YL
A female radio amateur.
YN
Abbreviation of yeoman.
YNFG
Initialism of Yume Nikki fangame.
yo
A greeting similar to hi.
yo momma
A general purpose insult.
yo-yo mode
The condition of having repeated intermittent failures, such that the system alternates between being up and down.
yodel in the canyon
To perform cunnilingus.
yodel up the valley
Synonym of yodel in the canyon.
yokel
A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive.
yokibus
A miscellaneous thing or whimsical contraption; a thingamajig.
YOLO
Acronym of you only live once, i.e. expressing the view that one should make the most of the present moment.
yomper
A soldier who participates in a yomp, or long-distance march.
yoogle
To increase yield or optimize returns in decentralized finance.
yosi boy
An ambulant male cigarette vendor.
you break it, you buy it
If you damage, harm or destroy something, you are responsible for repairing it or accepting the consequences.
you buy cheap, you get cheap
Inexpensive goods and services tend to be inferior to more expensive ones.
you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity.
you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make her drink
Alternative form of you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink
Alternative form of you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
you can lead horses to water, but you can't make them drink
Alternative form of you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
you can't catch old birds with chaff
The wisest and the most experienced cannot be easily deceived.
you can't fight City Hall
Nothing can be done to change the situation, because it is a governmental decision or a similarly institutional decision (e.g., high-level corporate, senior military brass, dominant cultural norm).
you can't fix stupid
It is often fruitless to help people who are stupid and do stupid things.
you can't get a quart into a pint pot
You cannot fit a large object or amount in something smaller.
you can't go home again
Past times which are fondly remembered are irrecoverably in the past and cannot be relived.