Define Y'all Meaning

Y'all
contraction for you-all

what is going on with y'all?
By Maryellen
Y'all
Southern 2nd person plural pronoun. Most concise and easily distinguished. Despite the assurance of some emails that have been passing around, "y'all" is plural. Only an absolute idiot would use it as a singular pronoun.

Where are y'all going?
By Kai
Y'all
A southern contraction of the term, "you all."
And mind you, that we southerners get very offended when stupid people think anyone who says it is a hick. Shut the hell up.

"Hey, what are y'all doing tonight?"
By Adria
Y'all
contraction for you all. Despite what some think, it is not only used by hicks and the uneducated. People from all walks of life, traditionally the southern states use it.

By Midge
Y'all
The best way to address two or more people. Better than: you guys, youse guys, and you all! Yes, I live in Southern Alabama, and yes, I attended Harvard!

Please shut up, y'all!!!
By Jesselyn
Y'all
The only way to address two or more people. Y'all sounds a heck of a lot better than youse guys and is more efficient as well. Only say it if you're from the south unless you want to get laughed at because yankees don't know how to pronounce it right. Ya'll is spelled incorrectly and "all y'all" is perfectly legitimate. Never use y'all to refer to one person--it makes things really confusing.

He was fixing to teach y'all a lesson.
I was wondering what all y'all had in mind.
By Berte
Y'all
Derived from the old English ye and all. Originally used in colonial America. Now often used to represent you all.

What are y'all up to.
By Lyssa
Y'all
Stands for you all. pretty much all southerners use it. "all y'all" and "all of yall" are both correct. I'm from houson and I use y'all all the time, even though I went to Yale

What are y'all doin' tonight?
By Pearla
Y'all
Y'all is the contractive of 'you all'

It is plural, refering to two or more people. If you use it to refer to one person you will sound ignorant and any nearby Southern will know that you are not really from around those parts.

Very common in the South, it is rare to find someone (excluding Florida, and that's only because of all the Yankees down there) that doesn't use y'all.

Saying y'all makes so much more sense than the ever-popular you guys, you guyses, or even you all. It is much shorter and gets the point across much faster. And takes less breath.

It is never ya'll. The 'a' is not a part of you, it's a part of all (you wouldn't spell it out as youa ll, would you?).

Phoebe: What're you doing tonight?
Greg: Chris and I are going to the movies. We're seeing *insert good movie here*
Phoebe: Y'all suck! I've wanted to see that movie for forever!
By Rosie
Y'all
when a black person says it, its ghetto.
when a white person says it, its country.

black guy: how y'all doing
guy 2: get yo ghetto as outta hear.

white guy: how y'all doing
guy2: damn redneck..
By Jessy