yar
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a variation of
yare.
yareadjectivequick; agile; lively.
Example Sentences
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State-supported colleges are so crowded that 50% of the qualified applicants have to be turned away each yar.
From Time Magazine Archive
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George Bush--a man who will probably go down in history as the last President to know what yar means--was a comparative hep cat with his idiosyncratic zest for pork rinds and cigarette boats.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I done ther trailin', but this yar tenderfut saved me frum bein' killed twice, an' he's got nerves o' steel.
From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish
Hayar, you mighty chief from 'Rapahoe," shouted a voice, "do yer find this yar town so dead slow as yer did?
From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish
Thet ar brought seven dollars, for two hundred an' eighty pounds, in York, airly this yar.
From Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time by James R. Gilmore