It’s definitely an Appalachian thing, even earlier than Turtle Man you could hear people hauling ass in their dilapidated overgrown F350s and shouting “yeeyee” from the driver’s seat.
As for a definition, it’s like the mountain version of “yeehaw” or “let’s get this bread”
And yet the term appeared in Animal Planet’s Call of the Wildman 12 years ago…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_the_Wildman
Skip to 1:45 for relevant yees https://youtu.be/SDh1AxD8J_c?si=8dyTb3-yNkavf8sR
Jokes aside this is also speculation, but it seems to me to be originated in a country/rural culture.
It’s definitely an Appalachian thing, even earlier than Turtle Man you could hear people hauling ass in their dilapidated overgrown F350s and shouting “yeeyee” from the driver’s seat.
As for a definition, it’s like the mountain version of “yeehaw” or “let’s get this bread”