Entry · catalog no. 1592
yas
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interjection · northeast · 2026
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An emphatic cry of approval and celebration — yes, but stretched and lifted, thrown at someone doing something flawlessly.
“Yas, walk that runway — give them everything!”
Origin & Attribution
Born on the floor of Harlem's Black and Latino ballroom scene in the late 1980s, shouted to hype voguers and performers. Heard in the 1990 documentary "Paris Is Burning" years before mainstream media and celebrity fandom recast it as generic internet enthusiasm.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The Northeast
northeast · 2026
Spoken by
northeast
$YASThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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