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/waɪ/ noun C2
  1. A particular facility run by the YMCA/YWCA. (US, informal)

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“Y-e-e-s,” admitted Anne, “I took it up and I pinned it on my breast just to see how it would look.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 94 · C1
I’ve been through the encyclopaedia down to Y looking for something you can’t buy with it; and I expect to have to take up the appendix next week.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 9 · C1
If yer does know him, and he’s on de square, w’y I’ll spiel yer de bunch of hot air he sent yer.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 35 · C1
“On y va,” (coming) exclaimed Peppino, who from frequenting the house of Signor Pastrini understood French perfectly in all its idioms.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1078 · C1

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