Yank

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yank \Yank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yanked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Yanking}.]
     To twitch; to jerk. [Colloq. U. S.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Yank \Yank\, n.
     An abbreviation of {Yankee}. [Slang]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yank \Yank\, n. [Cf. Scot. yank a sudden and severe blow.]
     A jerk or twitch. [Colloq. U. S.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)