Meaning of Yank | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
2. A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States, especially from New England.
   US
3. Alternative letter-case form of Yank (“Yankee”).
   alt-of, derogatory, often
4. A masturbation session.
   slang
5. An American: someone from the United States.
   Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, broadly, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur
6. Short for Yankee, meaning, in the American Civil War, someone on the Union side.
   abbreviation, alt-of

Equivalents

Examples

“He unjammed the rope with a short yank.”

“He rested his hand on his bare chest, an innocent enough spot, but soon it drifted of its own accord down his stomach to slide beneath the waistband of his briefs. Fine. A quick yank would relieve the sexual tension that simmered in him.”

“Tell my young bad, she can vouch for me I was only thirteen with a yank on me”

“Halt! come down there, you Yanks, come down!”

““I do wish I might of found you in my sights when you was with them damn Yanks,” Abner added.”

“Corporal Bob explained, “The Yanks has tha best weapons. But us Rebs know how to shoot tha damn things. […]””

““This time,” he General Alphonse-Pierre Juin] told the Yanks, “you have not crossed to win new victories but to preserve peace. […]””

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