Crossword clues for yank
yank
- Reb's foe
- Extract, as a tooth
- Union soldier
- Tug violently
- Remove from the schedule
- Reb's opponent
- Quick tug
- Pinstriped player, for short
- Extract a tooth
- A-Rod, for one
- Tug abruptly
- Tug (on)
- Sox rival
- Reb's rival
- Pull, as hair
- Pull quickly
- Pull out, as a tooth
- Pull on a tooth
- One way to extract a tooth
- Forceful tug
- Be rough with the reins
- American, across the pond
- World War II army magazine
- Way to pull a tooth
- Tug but good
- Try to pull out
- The Scooter was one
- The Big Unit, 'til recently
- Remove, with "out"
- Remove A-Rod from a starting lineup?
- Put on the bench
- Pull firmly
- Pull abruptly
- Pinstriped player, informally
- North Americans
- Mantle was one
- Mantle or Jeter, for short
- Jerk sharply
- Harsh tug
- Good tug
- Give a good tug
- Give a firm tug to
- G. I. magazine of World War II
- Extract with pliers
- Brit's WWII comrade
- Brit's WWII ally
- Big Apple ballplayer, for short
- Any of the Bronx Bombers
- American, to Brits
- American, overseas
- American, informally
- W.W. II Army magazine
- American, to a Brit
- Pull a fast one?
- An American, to a Brit
- American, in W.W. II
- Big jerk?
- U.S. soldier in W.W. II
- American, abroad
- Bronx Bomber
- Pull suddenly
- Pull hard and fast
- Pull sharply
- Big tug
- Tug hard
- American, in England
- Jerk hard
- A lot of pull?
- An American who lives in New England
- An American abroad
- An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
- G.I., in W.W. I
- O'Neill hero
- Doughboy
- Hero of "The Hairy Ape"
- Jerk move?
- Taylor's "A ___ at Oxford"
- Sudden pull
- O'Neill's hirsute stoker
- "The Hairy Ape" role
- A.E.F. man
- G.I. in England
- Stoker in "The Hairy Ape"
- American's a jerk
- American tug
- Sharp tug
- American giving no backing to Knight
- American's vote against looking over conclusion to cyber-attack
- Pull with a jerk
- Pull someone across the pond
- Pull bovine animal across rear of barn
- Beast of burden carrying north American
- Jackets for keen army about to show pluck
- American jerk
- Tug suddenly
- Tug sharply
- Civil War soldier
- Sharp pull
- Pull forcefully
- Remove unceremoniously
- Remove abruptly, as a tooth
- Quick pull
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yank \Yank\, n. [Cf. Scot. yank a sudden and severe blow.] A jerk or twitch. [Colloq. U. S.]
Yank \Yank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Yanking.] To twitch; to jerk. [Colloq. U. S.]
Yank \Yank\, n. An abbreviation of Yankee. [Slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
abbreviated form of Yankee, 1778.
"to pull, jerk," 1822, Scottish, of unknown origin. Related: Yanked; yanking. The noun is 1818 in sense of "sudden blow, cuff;" 1856 (American English) as "a sudden pull."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States, especially from New England. 2 (context sometimes pejorative English) A Yankee, an American: someone from the United States.
Wikipedia
Yank is a shortened form of Yankee, a slang term (sometimes pejorative) for someone of American origin or heritage. In the United States, the word refers to people in the Northern states.
The Yank was a vehicle made by Custom Auto Works, a company based in San Diego, California, in 1950. Being what could be described as a poor man's sports car, it was an inexpensive, though rather attractive, aluminum-bodied car. It was powered by a , 134.2-cubic-inch-displacement Willys four-cylinder L-head engine mated to a three-speed manual transmission. It cost $1,000 from the factory, weighed , and had a wheelbase of .
Yank is a nickname for:
- Yank Adams (1847-1923), American professional carom billiards player specializing in finger billiards
- Yank Azman (born 1947), Canadian television and movie actor
- Yank Barry (born 1948), Canadian musician and businessman
- Charles A. Bernier (1890-1963), American football, basketball and baseball player, coach and college administrator
- Irwin Boyd (1908-1979), American National Hockey League player
- Robert B. "Yank" Heisler (born 1949), American retired business executive and current university dean
- Yank Lawson (1911-1995), American jazz trumpeter
- Yank Levy (1897-1965), Canadian soldier, military instructor and author of one of the first manuals on guerrilla warfare
- Yank Rachell (1910-1997), American country blues mandolin and guitar player
- Yank Robinson (1857-1894), American Major League Baseball player
- Yank Terry (1911-1979), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Wayne Warren (born 1962), Welsh darts player
- Stan Yerkes (1874-1940), American Major League Baseball pitcher
Usage examples of "yank".
Jack hauled himself to his feet, yanked on his jacket, and for the second time that day left without telling Addle where he was going, or why.
Every weekend, the Yanks had a wild brawl down on the se afront and the police were called in.
Crack, crack, crack, their trigger hands in constant motion, ejecting old shells, chambering fresh ones, not really aiming as they yanked off their bullets, the recoils jolting them.
Giving them a polite nod, Alec tried to hurry past but one caught the edge of his cloak and yanked him roughly into their midst.
Yanking her into the dining cabin, the Argon dragged her over to the table, where he practically dumped her into one of the two chairs.
Yank had used slang sampling a thirty-year span of American argot, and Jonathan assumed he got it from late night movies.
Scant seconds, it seemed, after the COD had been nudged and prodded out of the way, an EA-6B Prowler electronic-warfare aircraft slammed into the deck in a barely controlled crash, yanked to a halt by the arrestor cable.
The cable-creature had yanked itself completely free of the ground at one end.
You are just behaving like any man who has had the rug yanked out from under his feet.
He simply yanked away a wire connecting between the tab and the blinker box.
He grabbed the upper edge of the blob in his gloved hands and yanked hard.
I yanked the rest of the line over the wall, and hastened across the Boody grounds, coiling it as I went, the gun a hard lump between belt and belly.
Cawcaw fishes when the feller which is skiping gets a bite he lets him have it a minit and the feller whitch is padling the bote padles towards the shore and then the feller whitch is skiping gumps rite out as soon as the water aint over his head and gives a big yank, and the pikeril goes saling into the field.
Without pausing he yanked her after him as he plunged into the narrow entrance of the dense, boxwood maze.
Spitmobile guns right past us, Chugger yanks the wheel to the left, and the back end swings around to collide climactically against the front end of the Bronco, sending a precious shrapnel of bouncing snare drums, splintering guitars, squirming black cables, and jury-rigged electronics.