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your all's

your all's determiner: belonging to the multiple persons being addressed.

Determiner

your all's

  1. (colloquial, nonstandard) Belonging to the multiple persons being addressed.
    • And yet, your all’s close questioning goes right to the heart of the discrimination and everything else, and that’s the basis of their operation.1982, United States Senate Committee on Finance, Tuition Tax Credit Proposals http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=OCLC09290207&id=p88KC1hVqHcC&q=%22your+all%27s%22&dq=%22your+all%27s%22&pgis=1
    • “Bless your all’s hearts,” she said. “Take good care.”1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0061097314&id=O-XiVJO1K1gC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=%22your+all%27s%22&sig=5Da_gaMm3H8qL9XdRqNEJb2XkMg

Origin of your all's

From your + all + -'s, formed after you all.

Questions about your all's

What does your all's mean?
Your all's means belonging to the multiple persons being addressed.
What part of speech is your all's?
Your all's is a determiner.

Words near your all's in the dictionary

  1. Younus
  2. youpon
  3. youpons
  4. YouPube
  5. your
  6. your all's
  7. your arse
  8. your ass
  9. your barn door is open
  10. your blood's worth bottling
  11. your boy

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