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Yous

Parf of speech: Pronoun, OED Year: 1835, OED Evaluation: Regional. Chiefly Irish English, U.S. and Australian

Pronoun

ExampleMeaning
...and I 'm like "Okay you know what? I 'm not that stupid. Okay you don 't want- you don 't wanna be disciplined for fighting. I really don 't care but don 't tell me that you 're play-fighting when you 're knocking each other the way yous were."
Pronoun
ExampleMeaning
Um, well it 's interesting, I uh, I spend my summers up North, and uh, my grammar by the end of the summer is uh- has slipped a great deal, because when you get up North, you start talking, I can 't even imitate it now, catch me at the end of August, but you-know you say "uh l--" you-know the waitresses will refer to the group as 'yous guys', and- and etcetera. Um, uh I uh, I hav-- constantly on the watch for bad grammar...
Pronoun

Zing

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1911, OED Evaluation: Colloquial. Originally U.S.

A sharp, high-pitched ringing sound

ExampleMeaning
So then at the end when we were all saying bye, I- I said bye to her, I gave her a hug. Then I was like, "I hope married life gets better." (Laughs) Everybody's like, "zing!" (Laughs)
Making some kind of sound

zippie

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: So he picked me up and he looked so nice. Like usually he just wears like some stupid c-- graphic brand tee-shirt and like- or like his ah- Interviewer: Jeans. Speaker: Jeans and- Interviewer: Running-shoes. Speaker: Running-shoes and then like a hoodie, always. All the time, with like some sort of hel-- brand-name hat. So then when he picked me up, he's wearing his nice wool jacket. Like ah, his dress jacket and then like, um a dress- sort-of-dressy zippie, and then he wore like a white collared tee-shirt- or like white collared long-sleeve shirt. And then he wore like his new jeans and his Lacoste shoes. And then he was wearing cologne too and he gelled his hair up all nice. So then, I was like, "oh wow, he really dressed up."
(Presumably) A zip-up sweatshirt with no hood.

zone out

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1970, OED Evaluation: U.S. slang.

To relax, to switch off, to detach oneself mentally from one's surroundings; (also) to lose concentration or consciousness, to fall asleep.

ExampleMeaning
And it's just like being in a new place, I guess is sort-of exciting. And like, it's a new environment and stuff. But it's still like, school is school! But at least, hopefully I'll be more concentrated. 'Cause you know me and my zoning out. I'm scared. I'm just going-to be like in class, every day just "(humming)." Hopefully it will work out.
To relax, to switch off, to detach oneself mentally from one's surroundings; (also) to lose concentration or consciousness, to fall asleep.
ExampleMeaning
Yeah for band- we stay there for the whole day so we get to have a dinner break and we go to the mall and buy our dinners there. And so she was telling me some story and I completely zoned out- like- like- I think I sort-of blacked out but not really like I just- I 've never had that before- it was really weird. I couldn 't concentrate on what she was saying blah-blah-blah.
To relax, to switch off, to detach oneself mentally from one's surroundings; (also) to lose concentration or consciousness, to fall asleep.