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Yank   /jæŋk/   Listen
Yank

noun
1.
An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).  Synonyms: Northerner, Yankee.
2.
An American (especially to non-Americans).  Synonyms: Yankee, Yankee-Doodle.
verb
(past & past part. yanked; pres. part. yanking)
1.
Pull, or move with a sudden movement.  Synonym: jerk.



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"Yank" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the afternoon they worked their way up along the edge of the road, hiding in the bushes time after time. Several small bodies of armed men passed them, and once they caught a scrap of conversation about "Yank bridge burners." ...
— Tom of the Raiders • Austin Bishop

... our case none. Well, we better go eat it before she throws it away. Come on, Bat, you're included in the general gloom. Your face looks like a last year's circus bill, Win, with them patches of paper hangin' to it. Maybe that's what riled her. If I thought it was I'd yank 'em off an' let them cuts bleed no matter how bad they stung, just to show her my heart's in the right place. But that might not suit, neither, ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx

... any man I could hire, an' a good deal better'n the average run. We've got a house here for the rest of you, an' Stevens will find plenty of work if he's handy with tools. Now then, kid, we'll get the old folks settled, an' after that I'll yank you ...
— Dick in the Desert • James Otis

... a tumult of sound. YANK is seated in the foreground. He seems broader, fiercer, more truculent, more powerful, more sure of himself than the rest. They respect his superior strength—the grudging respect of fear. Then, too, he represents to them a self-expression, the very last word in what they ...
— The Hairy Ape • Eugene O'Neill

... "They will yank us all up for aiding and abetting," he proclaimed, trying to focus his eyes on the shorthand book ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon


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