Meaning & use

Yinzers

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People from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region, especially those who speak with the area's distinctive dialect.

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Yinzers are famous for saying "yinz" instead of "you all."

The bar was packed with yinzers cheering for the Steelers on Sunday.

A note on using this word

Named after "yinz," the regional second-person plural pronoun used in Pittsburgh English, itself derived from "you ones."

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