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gap yah

gap yah noun: a gap year.

Noun

gap yah (plural gap yahs)

  1. (UK, humorous, slang) A gap year.
    • I was at university in Paris for three months and I missed my friends desperately. I'd gone away without them on my gap yah but being in the Caribbean alone was fun, and people there were friendly and made me feel safe.2020, Grace Campbell, Amazing Disgrace: A Book About "Shame"
    • I pushed a strawberry sweet into my mouth, bagged up the afternoon's rubbish and thought about what my gap-yah girl would be called, what her favourite colour was, her favourite food.2020, Naomi Joy, Do Her No Harm

Forms of gap yah

pluralgap yahs

Origin of gap yah

From stereotypical pronunciation by the privileged upper class. Compare yah (“an upper-class person”). Gap Yah was the name of a comedy sketch of this kind, published on YouTube in February 2010.

Questions about gap yah

What does gap yah mean?
Gap yah means a gap year.
What part of speech is gap yah?
Gap yah is a noun.
What is the plural of gap yah?
The plural of gap yah is gap yahs.

Words near gap yah in the dictionary

  1. gap theorist
  2. gap theorists
  3. gap theory
  4. gap wedge
  5. gap wedges
  6. gap yah
  7. gap yahs
  8. gap year
  9. gap years
  10. GAP-43
  11. gap-fill

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