Meanings
plural Yalies
- informalA student at Yale University; a Yale University graduate.
Hart, on the other hand, was a cool young Yalie whose 1974 Senate campaign stump speech was actually called “The End of the New Deal.”
2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic1 more example
The neons and spandex of the “Safety Dance” lend Yalies a fleeting escape from their normal selves, the self who un-tags Facebook photos that may hurt their future electability.
2009 October 23, Claire Gordon, “The decade that never dies”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2010Synonyms: Eli
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA student at Yale University; a Yale University graduate.
Origin
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Yalie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yalie
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