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y'all

nounColloquialSouth

A American English slang term. Browse all American slang.

What it means

  1. You, plural. Fills a genuine gap in standard English, which lost its second-person plural, and has spread far beyond the South for exactly that reason.

  2. All y'all intensifies it, addressing every single member of a group.

In use

  • Are y'all coming to the thing tonight?

  • All y'all need to hear this.

Where it comes from

Southern American English, with contributions from both Scots-Irish settlement patterns and AAVE. It has been adopted nationally in part because it is gender-neutral, unlike 'you guys'.

Other forms

Similar terms:
you guys, yinz