Meanings
plural Yalemen
- A man who attends or graduated from Yale University
“Where did you go to college?” “I'm a Yaleman,” I said.
1987, Robert Vickrey, The Affable Curmudgeon, page 92 more examples
“The average Yaleman, Class of '24,” Time magazine reported last year after reading something in the New York Sun, a newspaper published in those days, “makes $25,111 a year.”
1955, William Gordon Leary, James Steel Smith, Thought and Statement, page 158My graduate dean, himself a Yaleman, accepted without hesitation the primacy of the other boy's claim and the priority of his announcement.
1987, Vince Clemente, John Ciardi: Measure of the Man, page 197
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Yaleman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yaleman
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