Usually means: Expression of joy and excitement.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word yay:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. yay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yay: Merriam-Webster
  3. yay, yay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yay: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Yay: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yaḥy, Yay, yay: Wordnik
  8. Yay, yay: Wiktionary
  9. yay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. yay: Dictionary.com
  11. Yay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Yay: Rhymezone
  13. yay: FreeDictionary.org
  14. yay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. yay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. yay: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yay: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. yay: CCI Computer
  3. Yay: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. YAY: Acronym Finder
  2. YAY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. yay, yay: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Yay: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. YAY, YAY, YAY, yay, the yay: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (yay)

noun:  (US, slang) Cocaine (powder or crack).
noun:  A branch of the Tai language family, spoken by the Bouyei and Giáy people.
adverb:  Alternative spelling of yea [(dated) Yes, indeed.]

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nay, no

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nay, no

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