Define the word Yank"Yank" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Yank \Yank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yanked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Yanking.]
To twitch; to jerk. [Colloq. U. S.]
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"Yank" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Yank \Yank\, n.
An abbreviation of Yankee. [Slang]
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"Yank" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Yank \Yank\, n. [Cf. Scot. yank a sudden and severe blow.]
A jerk or twitch. [Colloq. U. S.]
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"Yank" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
Yank
n 1: an American who lives in the North (especially during the
American Civil War) [syn: Yankee, Northerner]
2: an American who lives in New England [syn: New Englander,
Yankee]
3: an American [syn: Yankee, Yankee-Doodle]
v : pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle
and jerked the door open" [syn: jerk]
"yank" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "yank":
bob, clutch, evulse, flick, flip, flirt, flounce, grab, hitch,
jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, lug, lurch,
pluck, pull, snake, snap, snatch, start, sudden pull, tear, tug,
tweak, twitch, vellicate, wrench, yerk
"yank" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"
yank
(From the colloquial meaning "to pull suddenly") To
insert a copy of some saved text at the current position in a
document being edited.
The term is used in the Unix text editors GNU Emacs and
vi but "paste" is more common elsewhere.
[Used elsewhere?]
(1998-07-01)
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