Yay Area
n.— «The Bay Area, or Yay Area as it’s known in hip hop circles, is much slower when it comes to putting these things together than the East Coast, which seems to poop out new mixes every week.» —“Mixtape Shmixtape” by Tamara Palmer SF Weekly (San Francisco, California) Nov. 9, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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