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Young-people’s

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

NA

ExampleMeaning
And Trinity-Church certainly had lots of groups. They had the young people's group. Keith went to the young people's group for instance.
A church group for teenagers.

Yous

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

Pronoun

ExampleMeaning
Um, my grandmother, who's now gone, um had little jobs. She was a single mother of three, actually I think one of yous interviewed my aunt Dora.
Pronoun
ExampleMeaning
...I just pretty much watch T-V 'cause really there's nothing else going on. And I'm sure even for yous guys, like aside from, you-know, hanging out with your friends, there's nothing. Like you-know, there's no street dances or...
Pronoun
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Hippies never cut their hair (laughs). So, the barber didn't like it at all 'cause yous guys never went to the barber shop, eh? And that suppressed it, ah, like even in Kirkland-Lake today, I-don't-know, maybe there's traditional barber shops. There's only what? Two- two or three...
Pronoun
ExampleMeaning
So we were just sitting, and this other guy comes. He says, "Ah, yous wouldn't have a cigarette, eh?" I says, "You know what, we just gave it to that guy." He says, "Ah, to him, he's so miserable!" And I said, "I gave him two dollars, too." "Oh," he says, "I could have used that." But he says, "That's okay. That's okay."
Pronoun
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: We may talk again. Interviewer: Yes we may. Speaker: Um, and if yous want to use my name you can.
Pronoun
Speaker: How long have yous been here? Interviewer: We've been here since Monday.
Pronoun

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
Yeah, the attention span's not there. ... Like grade-six to grade-eight, I was on Ritalin but I was like a zombie when I was on that shit. ... Like totally zoned out, come home- ... Or was it I lost my appetite. I wouldn't eat.
To relax, to switch off, to detach oneself mentally from one's surroundings; (also) to lose concentration or consciousness, to fall asleep.