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Celebratory cheer
Answer for the clue "Celebratory cheer ", 3 letters:
yay
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Etymology 1 adv. (context chiefly US English) so, this (accompanied by a hand gesture) interj. 1 (context colloquial English) (alternative form of yea nodot=1 English) (gloss: yes). 2 (context colloquial English) (non-gloss definition: An expression of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"this," as in yay big "this big," 1950s, perhaps from yea "yes" in its sense of "even, truly, verily." "a sort of demonstrative adverb used with adjectives of size, height, extent, etc., and often accompanied by a hand gesture indicating size" [DAS].