Yaleman

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English

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Etymology

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From Yale +‎ -man.

Noun

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Yaleman (plural Yalemen)

  1. A man who attends or graduated from Yale University
    • 1955, William Gordon Leary, James Steel Smith, Thought and Statement, page 158:
      “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.”
    • 1987, Vince Clemente, John Ciardi: Measure of the Man, page 197:
      My graduate dean, himself a Yaleman, accepted without hesitation the primacy of the other boy's claim and the priority of his announcement.
    • 1987, Robert Vickrey, The Affable Curmudgeon, page 9:
      “Where did you go to college?” “I'm a Yaleman,” I said.

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