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yay

interjection as in hurrah

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“You draft some player in the sixth round and all of a sudden you hear ‘yay!’ way up in the corner.

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“The first one she was yay high and then six months later, she grew. We had to readjust all of our dolls.”

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"When someone got a brick here to their head, it was like 'Yay'. I don't think they stopped to think that we were humans behind that uniform".

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It’s saying, “Oh, yay, I get to flunk another math test this week,” when what you mean is that you are freaked out about your consistently terrible grades in math class.

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“Oh ... yay,” say their fan bases, whose teams are better when starting backups.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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