Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

the Y

English answer:

YMCA

Added to glossary by Mark Nathan
Apr 5, 2007 22:09
17 yrs ago
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English term

the Y

English Other Sports / Fitness / Recreation College sports
"he played basketball at the Y and league baseball" and it's this Y that does not lend itself very much to searches. what does it stand for, for stand for something it must.

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YMCA

and there's a song about it....
Peer comment(s):

agree Mikhail Kropotov : Photo-finish :)
0 min
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agree Kim Metzger
0 min
Thankst
agree Roman Bardachev
1 min
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agree Joanna Borowska : my first thought, too :o)
1 min
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agree Patricia Rosas : thank you, Mark, for your rendition below (too bad we don't have sound!) and for the record, it's an initialism for Young Men's Christian Association
8 mins
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agree jccantrell : It's fun to play... at the Y-M-C-A... Y-M-C-A, ahh the Village People.
11 mins
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agree Alexander Demyanov : And Young Men's Christian Associations nowadays are basically affordable gyms/sports clubs, accepting members of any or no religios persuasion.
29 mins
That would be the useful answer
agree KathyT
50 mins
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agree Vicky Papaprodromou
3 hrs
Thanks
agree kironne
5 hrs
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agree Elena Aleksandrova
6 hrs
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agree tazdog (X)
6 hrs
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agree PAS : another agreeathon? :-)
12 hrs
agree Will Matter
13 hrs
agree Alfa Trans (X)
3 days 19 hrs
agree kmtext
6 days
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+11
2 mins

the YMCA

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Peer comment(s):

agree Kim Metzger
0 min
Thank you
agree Joanna Borowska
1 min
Thank you
agree Mark Nathan : Young man, there's no need to feel down. I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground.....It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.
4 mins
Village People :)
agree KathyT
50 mins
Thank you
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
3 hrs
agree kironne
5 hrs
agree Elena Aleksandrova
6 hrs
agree tazdog (X)
6 hrs
agree Richard Benham : Staying at the Y, however, is a very different proposition from "dining at the Y".
10 hrs
agree PAS : aaaand an agree for you too
12 hrs
agree Will Matter
13 hrs
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