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(often African-American Vernacular, LGBT or valley girl, slang) Nonstandard spelling of yes. quotations
'Oh! yas, I smokes; but I durned sight d'ruther chaw.'
1862, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862
"Yas, yas!" they cried, with broader grins and many nods.
1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 175
It's nice, yas, and it's paid for.
1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass
Nonstandard spelling of yous. examples