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yes ands

yes ands is the third-person singular simple present indicative of yes and.

Meaning of yes and

Verb

yes and (third-person singular simple present yes ands, present participle yes anding, simple past and past participle yes anded)

  1. To go along with what is offered, especially in a performative context, and to accept and expand upon it; to go with the flow; to take it in stride.
    • If Lord Buckley made standup courageous, then Lenny Bruce “yes anded” that and ushered in standup for a new age2011, Margaret Hicks, Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History

Questions about yes ands

What is yes ands the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Yes ands is the third-person singular simple present indicative of yes and.

Words near yes ands in the dictionary

  1. yes and
  2. yes and amen
  3. yes and no
  4. yes anded
  5. yes anding
  6. yes ands
  7. yes homo
  8. yes ma'am
  9. yes man
  10. yes men
  11. yes to death

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yes ands (page history and authors); yes and (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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