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yinz

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yinz /yinz, jɪnz / (also yunz /yənz, jənz /)
pronoun US dialect (in western Pennsylvania) you (used to refer to more than one person):
how yinz guys doing?
glad to have yinz here
Six dollars for a Coke. Yunz believe that?
– ORIGIN 1980s : representing a regional pronunciation of you-uns, a plural form appearing in Appalachia and the Midwest from the early 19th century.