What is Yar!?
1.
1. Pirate's greeting.
2. Interjection used by pirates.
3. Expression of great joy.
4. Jubulant greeting.
1. "Yar, maties, to-day we sail to the Dry Tortugas!"
2. "Yar, whirrs me cutlass? I got an itch, yar. Yar, I need to do laundry!"
3. "YAR! I just won the lottery!"
4. "Yar, Fred, hows it going?"
2.
sacred word of the pirate people
Christopher Colombus: "Yar! I fell off the cliff!"
Servant: "Ur a pirate?!":|
3.
sleek, fast, impressive, desirable
Dexter: Yes, yes. She was quite a boat, the True Love, wasn't she?
Tracy: Was, and is.
Dexter: My, she was yar.
- Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story
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4.
Nearly rhetorical affirmative response to someone else's observation. Often muttered by pirates.
Passerby: Thee's a steering wheel sticking out of your pants!
Pirate: Yar, it's driving me nuts...
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5.
An exclamaition of agreement (and also used as a random exlamaition) often used by "pirates," but since pirates have now become "illegal downloaders of software/music" and those "pirates" tend to be teenagers, "yar!" is basically an exclamaition of agreement (and also used as a random exlamaition)often used by teenagers.
Bob: Yar! This song I just downloaded is
uncensored !
Lara: Yar!
6.
In some East Indian dialects, "yar" (or more appropriately "yaar") means friend, but it is used in many sentences as a sort of pause.
Uses:
1. To talk to a friend.
2. To add a frustration tone.
3. To express anger.
4. To insert a short pause, akin to the English word "um," though never used more than once in a sentence.
1. What is up, yaar.
2. Oh no, we're gonna die, yaar.
3. What the hell was that, yaar.
4. I was at the mall the other day, yaar, and I bought this shirt.
7.
In some South Asian dialects, means "friend"
What is up yar?
