Wiktionary
vb. To remove something like a nail, or a tooth with one quick strong pull.
Usage examples of "yank out".
Out here, the bad guys yank out the stones, junk the settings, pass the stones on up the ladder, and set up the next break-in.
He reached in, careful not to yank out his connection, and lifted the module onto the night-table.
So half the people in it have been gone quite a while, and I don't have the guts to finally erase or yank out the names.
The gunslinger had posed fifty or more to the computer, and Jake supposed that was a lot to just yank out of your head with no preparation, but when you considered that riddling had been such a big deal in the place where Roland had grown up .
Ultimately, though, I kept my peace and forced a grin to show that I was a good sport about it all, even as I imagined what it would be like to yank out my sword and send Ronnell's head tumbling across the deck.
Whenever Pedro Luz was having second thoughts, he'd yank out the tube and insert it directly in his mouth.
And I keep reminding myself we ought to yank out the Princess phone she got when she turned thirteen.
The last time that she'd held her mother, Sarra had been stone cold, and Daine had been trying to yank out the arrows that had killed her.
For some reason, he's afraid that someday I might show up and yank out several yards of his guts.
His idea was to yank out the screwdriver, whereupon the cat's body would drop neatly into the trash bag.