Pulling with a quick motion

• Bell ringer's activity
• Pulling with a jerk
• Five lost in navy rising, leader providing a tug
• Removing, as from the schedule
• Tugging sharply
• Violent drawing of American head of state being decapitated

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of yank English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yank \Yank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yanked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Yanking .] To twitch; to jerk. [Colloq. U. S.]