An expression of triumph or joy, usually in response to unexpected good news. Upper Midwest usage differs, and is used in a negative respect.
A: "We won!"
The first attestation in print is from 1947, in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel The Naked and the Dead, wherein Mailer wrote "’You’re fuggin ay,’ Gallegher snorted.”, but the origin of the term cer...
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