yastines - n.
a veil concealing the face except the eyes, worn by some Muslim women when in public. [Arab. yasmak, Turk. yasmak]

yastines - {n.}, {slang} Much talk about little things; talking all the time about unimportant things. * /Tom sat behind two girls on the bus and he got tired of their silly yak-yak./

yastines - noun
Also written ya (People and Society) A Sloane Ranger or yuppie; someone who says 'yah' instead of 'yes'. Etymology: Formed by converting their characteristic pronunciation of yah ('yes') into a noun. This mannerism had apparently been noted as long ago as 1887 in a student newspaper. History and Usage: Despite the fact that yah has evidently been a well-known affected pronunciation of yes for some time, the word was not used to characterize a social type until the early eighties. By the early nineties most people probably associated loud and repetitive use of yah more with the brash executive or yuppie type than with the upper classes. Pursuing my researches into the social make-up of the university [of St Andrews] with daughter and friends, I am reminded that the rich set are known as the Ya's, derived from their loud affirmations. Sunday Telegraph 17 July 1983, p. 9

yastines - Either a young affluent parent or a young aspiring professional. Etymology: A variation on the theme of yuppie, using the initial letters of Young Affluent Parent or Young Aspiring Professional for the'root'. History and Usage: Like guppie, this is really a stunt word, jumping on the bandwagon of yuppie but in a rather ad hoc fashion. The word yappie has been used by journalists in a variety of contexts and meanings--including 'a talkative yuppie', 'a yuppie dog-owner', 'young Asian-American professional', and 'young athletic participant'--but it is the two meanings given in the definition above that at present hold the majority. The word seems unlikely to survive in the language unless it becomes established in one of these two meanings. The yappies are the creation of the Henley Centre, the research organisation which plots changes in social and spending trends. They are the young professional people who were possibly yuppies in the 1980s...When children come on the scene yappies spend most of their time in the more prosaic roles of 'parent' and 'provider'. Financial Times 19 Apr. 1990, section 1, p. 9

yastines - noun
and adjective (Drugs) ( People and Society) In British slang: noun: A member of any of a number of Jamaican or West Indian gangs (see posse ) which engage in organized crime throughout the world, especially in connection with illicit drug-trafficking. In the plural, Yardies: these gangs as a whole or the criminal subculture that they represent. adjective: Of or belonging to the Yardies. Etymology: The name is derived from the Jamaican English word yard (or yaad) which originally meant 'a house or home' and came to be used by Jamaicans living outside Jamaica for the home country. The suffix -ie is common in nicknames for people from a particular place: compare Aussie or Ozzie for an Australian. History and Usage: Although probably active in the UK for some time, the Yardies only began to feature in the news towards the end of the eighties, when they were associated with the spread of drug-related crime in the UK in much the same way as the drug posses were in the US. The Yard was responding to claims that a Caribbean gang--ironically called The Yardies--has moved into London's Brixton area and is now setting up its own network of pushers to sell the so-called champagne-drug. Today 9 July 1986, p.
9 The Yardies is a loose association of violent criminals, most of whom originated in Kingston, Jamaica and whose principal interest is the trafficking and sale of cocaine. In Britain they are perceived as a new phenomenon. In America, however, their counterparts, the 'posses', are said to have been responsible for up to 800 drug-related murders since 1984. Daily Telegraph 13 Oct. 1988, p.
13 Many of the Shower who escaped the raid have fled abroad, some of them perhaps heading for Britain to join their 'yardie' colleagues. But more young Jamaican recruits will soon leave the tranquillity of the Caribbean for the mean streets of Washington DC. Sunday Telegraph 27 Nov. 1988, p. 10

yastines - n.
(also yabbie) (pl. -ies) Austral.
1 a small freshwater crayfish, esp. of the genus Cherax.
2 a marine prawn, Callianassa australiensis, often used as bait. [Aboriginal]