Usually means: Pull something quickly and sharply.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. yank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Yank, yank: Merriam-Webster
  3. Yank, yank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Yank, yank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yank: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Yank, yank: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yank, yank: Wordnik
  8. Yank, yank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Yank, yank: Wiktionary
  10. yank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Yank, yank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. yank: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. yank: Dictionary.com
  14. yank (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. yank: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Yank, Yank (automobile), Yank (nickname), Yank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Yank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. yank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. Yank: Rhymezone
  20. Yank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. yank: FreeDictionary.org
  22. yank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Yank: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Yank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. yank: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Yank: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. yank: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yank (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. yank, yank, yank, yank, Yank, Yank, Yank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. yank: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Yank, yank: ESL Slang page

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
noun:  (slang) A masturbation session.
verb:  (transitive) To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To remove from distribution.
noun:  (US) A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States, especially from New England.
noun:  (slang, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, UK, sometimes derogatory, by extension) An American: someone from the United States.
noun:  (slang, MLE) alternative form of shank (“stabbing weapon”) [The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.]
noun:  (often derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Yank (“Yankee”). [(US) A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States, especially from New England.]

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