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Y
noun
▶ the Y
a premises of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) or Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA); also the YMCA or YWCA organisation US, 1915- If you are really hard up, you can always join a church of the “Y”. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 263, 1950
- I arrived in Chi quite early in the morning, got a room in the Y, and went to bed with a very few dollars in my pocket. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 14, 1957
- “I’m going to the Y right now,” I announced. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, p. 90, 1961
- “They don’t call this Y the French Embassy for nothing,” the merchant marine laughs. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 25, 1963
- The all-male group of guests make the Y’s a perfect hang-out for queers. — Johnny Shearer, The Male Hustler, p. 25, 1966
- I was staying at the Y once, and this guy kept following me in the showers, wanting to cop my joint. — John Rechy, Numbers, p. 65, 1967
- At one point I learned that he was staying at the very Y I lived in. — Angelo d’Arcangelo, The Homosexual Handbook, p. 33, 1968
- “You could go to the Y,” she says. “You can say that ‘cause you’ve never been to the Y.” — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 92, 1970
- Ah, yes the Y. The best thing Christianity ever produced. — Screw, p. 16, 25 October 1971
- You weren’t at the Y last week. We lost. — Body Heat, 1980
- Leaving the Y early this morning — Melanie McGrath, Hard, Soft & Wet, p. 272, 1998
- “YMCA” [a song by the Village People] was as rousing as a religious anthem [...] “Go to the Y, find a young man, get him into the shower, and fuck him”. — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 186, 2001
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