noun Street Slang

yat

· noun · nola

The thick New Orleans accent — and the people who carry it.

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A working-class white New Orleans accent — closer in sound to Brooklyn than the Deep South, with 'erl' for oil and 'erster' for oyster. Also the person who speaks it.

“Dude's a full Yat — sounds like he should be running a deli in Queens, not a po-boy shop on Magazine.”
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yat In A Sentence

Dude's a full Yat — sounds like he should be running a deli in Queens, not a po-boy shop on Magazine.

Origin & Usage

Clipped from the greeting 'where y'at?' Locals heard it so much it became the label for the speakers themselves — working-class white New Orleanians, often of Irish, Italian and German descent.

Variants Yat
Tags #nola#dialect#identity#southern

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